Two Kenai Peninsula schools have been named by the Alaska Department of Early Education and Development as National Title I Distinguished Schools this year. Chapman… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Police in Alaska’s capital city have tentatively ruled out gunshots, drugs or suicide in the death of the newly elected mayor but have… Continue reading
JUNEAU — The board tasked with writing rules for Alaska’s recreational marijuana industry backtracked Tuesday and adopted stricter residency requirements for applicants for pot business… Continue reading
Tustumena Elementary School may be the only elementary school in Alaska teaching karate this winter. The class was one of about a dozen options offered… Continue reading
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has adjusted some of its winter road care methods to keep motorists safe more efficiently. For the… Continue reading
The Soldotna Post Office on Binkley Street was partially closed Monday because of technical difficulties.The retail window where customers can ship packages, purchase stamps and… Continue reading
An anonymous donor has offered $10,000 in match funds for the Students in Transition program in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.The program, which offers… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Alaska seafood has not been tainted by the Fukushima nuclear disaster four years ago, according to test results announced Monday by a state… Continue reading
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
Make plans to see Alaska Native playwright Jack Dalton’s powerful play, “Assimilation,” at 7 p.m. this evening at KPC’s Kenai River Campus McLane commons. The… Continue reading
More than 50 years after they formed the city, the group who signed Kenai’s 1963 charter were officially recognized with the Cornerstone Rock, a boulder… Continue reading
A pair of FAA technicians found themselves on the wrong end of an aerial accident earlier this month, as a crash stranded them 80 miles… Continue reading
JUNEAU, Alaska — Rayda Tegen had a husband, five children and a $40,000 a year job in Tooele, Utah, for the nearly 20 years she… Continue reading
For nearly his entire life, Atz Kilcher has been going up into the Fox River flats to enjoy the wilderness. Soon, he may be able… Continue reading
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Rene Valenciano has watched the number of Latino and Hispanic students grow at Joliet Public Schools District 86 from when he… Continue reading
RENO, Nev. (AP) — School custodians spent hundreds of hours disinfecting surfaces to stem a norovirus outbreak that eventually reached 19 schools.Fall break is credited… Continue reading
JONESBORO, Ark. — On. Dec 12, Valerie Bowen will turn 16 years old and begin searching for her first job.The Westside sophomore is a little… Continue reading
The 42 runners in Friday’s Tsalteshi Trails Turkey Trot ran a big circle in the rain. Beginning and ending at the Soldotna Sports Center, 14… Continue reading
The increasing numbers of bank anglers and powerboats on the Kenai River may be damaging the river habitat. The Alaska Department of Fish & Game… Continue reading
