Kenai Peninsula residents rescued from Bear Glacier

  Update, 1:30 p.m.: After being rescued from Bear Glacier where they had been stranded since Friday, Jennifer Neyman and Christopher Hanna are at Central… Continue reading

  • Apr 11, 2016

Kenai sells airport land

For the first time since 2013, Kenai will begin negotiating a sale of city-owned airport land to private individuals. At its Wednesday meeting, the Kenai… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion The road to Gray Cliff and Moose Point is a narrow, muddy path, shown on Monday, April 11, 2016. Apache Corporation, which was exploring for oil and gas in the area, had announced plans to improve the road by extending the Kenai Spur Highway, but withdrew from Alaska in March. The company is now in talks with the Kenai Peninsula Borough to donate its preliminary environmental and engineering work so the borough may be able to pick up the project.

Borough may pick up North Road extension

Property owners in Gray Cliff and Moose Point northeast of Nikiski may still get a road extension, even if Apache Corporation won’t be the one… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion The road to Gray Cliff and Moose Point is a narrow, muddy path, shown on Monday, April 11, 2016. Apache Corporation, which was exploring for oil and gas in the area, had announced plans to improve the road by extending the Kenai Spur Highway, but withdrew from Alaska in March. The company is now in talks with the Kenai Peninsula Borough to donate its preliminary environmental and engineering work so the borough may be able to pick up the project.

NTSB pieces together fatal Admiralty Island crash

The sole survivor of Friday’s plane crash remained in critical condition at a Seattle hospital Monday afternoon.Twenty-one-year-old Morgan Enright is in the intensive care unit,… Continue reading

  • Apr 11, 2016
  • By LISA PHU

Board approves school district budget

The Board of Education approved the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District FY17 Operating Budget, including a $209,424 use of fund balance, a request to the… Continue reading

  • Apr 11, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Debate on oil tax credits slows progress in state House

JUNEAU — A looming fight over the state’s oil and gas tax credits is coming to a head in the state House as it majority… Continue reading

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion A group of students plays tag with recycled grocery bags Tuesday, March 29, 2016, at the Kenai Recreation Center in Kenai, Alaska.

A good workout: students, families get in their weekly exercise

Among the throngs of Connections Home School Program students scattered and scampering across the floor of the Kenai Recreation Center gymnasium Tuesday, March 29, were… Continue reading

  • Apr 10, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan
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Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion A group of students plays tag with recycled grocery bags Tuesday, March 29, 2016, at the Kenai Recreation Center in Kenai, Alaska.
Walker stumps his tax plan

Walker stumps his tax plan

At a time of the year when Alaska’s Governor is generally sequestered on the third floor of the capital in Juneau as the mandated 90… Continue reading

Walker stumps his tax plan
Ellen adam inducted

Ellen adam inducted

Ellen Adlam, a Board Member of Peninsula Community Health Services (PCHS), in Soldotna, Alaska, and the first Consumer Representative to be elected to the Alaska… Continue reading

Ellen adam inducted
Clash of culinary kings

Clash of culinary kings

The 2nd Annual Clash of the Culinary Kings to benefit the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank was even bigger than last year’s event with over 125… Continue reading

Clash of culinary kings
Day of Celebration

Day of Celebration

A long evening for the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly began with Mayor Mike Navarre proclaiming “A Day of Celebration” commemorating the 10th Anniversary of hosting… Continue reading

Day of Celebration

Around the District

School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 6 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley… Continue reading

KPC showcases award winning photographer

Popular award winning author and photographer featured The public is invited to a free presentation by author, photographer and conservationist Kim Heacox at 6:30 p.m.… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Jacque White greets Sweet Soul, a 20-year-old draft mule she rescued from a kill pen in Pennsylvania, on Sunday, April 10, 2016 at her home off of Kalifornski Beach Road.

Woman moves mule cross country through equine rescue network

When Jacque White came across a greying draft mule on a Facebook page dedicated to relocating large animals sent to “kill pens,” she said she… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Jacque White greets Sweet Soul, a 20-year-old draft mule she rescued from a kill pen in Pennsylvania, on Sunday, April 10, 2016 at her home off of Kalifornski Beach Road.

Heroin addiction hooks Homer

Homer has a heroin problem, and it is growing. Similar to the fable of the blind men each touching different parts of an elephant and… Continue reading

  • Apr 10, 2016
  • By ANNA FROST

Assembly hears complaints, support on local option zone proposal

The very basics of local option zoning districts came up for debate at Tuesday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting.The assembly has been discussing a rewrite… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Tomato plants from the Kenai Peninsula Garden Club greeted visitors to the club's booth at the 37th Annual Home Show at the Soldotna Sports Complex on Saturday, April 9, 2016. The show, which features more than 100 exhibitors, will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, with a $5 admission fee for adults.
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Tomato plants from the Kenai Peninsula Garden Club greeted visitors to the club's booth at the 37th Annual Home Show at the Soldotna Sports Complex on Saturday, April 9, 2016. The show, which features more than 100 exhibitors, will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, with a $5 admission fee for adults.

Analysis: 28 water systems in Alaska exceed EPA lead limit

ANCHORAGE — The only school in one of Alaska’s most eroded communities is among 28 public and private entities in the state whose water systems… Continue reading

  • Apr 9, 2016
  • By Rachel D'oro

Tobacco bill passes senate, with mixed reviews

The Alaska Senate passed Senate Bill 1, the “Take it Outside Act,” sponsored by Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, the bill that would restrict smoking and… Continue reading

  • Apr 9, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Senate reshapes criminal justice landscape

In a landmark 16-2 vote, the Alaska Senate has approved one of the most sweeping changes to the 49th state’s criminal sentencing structure since statehood.Senate… Continue reading