Kenai Peninsula College: Around Campus

Advice and a Slice offers venue to explore options KPC’s Kenai River Campus will be holding the third annual Advice and a Slice open house… Continue reading

  • Mar 29, 2015
  • By Suzie Kendrick
  • Schools

School News for March 30

School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley… Continue reading

Food tax exemption changes still on the table

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday rejected an ordinance that would repeal the winter grocery tax exemption. However, the option to reduce the seasonal… Continue reading

  • Mar 18, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Senate expected to vote on its budget plan Friday

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Senate Finance Committee plans public testimony this week as it crafts its version of the state operating budget. The goal is… Continue reading

  • Mar 29, 2015
  • By Becky Bohrer

Alaskans focus on food security

JUNEAU, Alaska — Where does your food come from? Where does your kid’s school lunch come from? Ninety-five percent of the time, the answer is… Continue reading

  • Mar 29, 2015
  • By Melissa Griffiths
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Kenai vice-mayor Brian Gabriel (center) answers an audience question as panel moderator Sammy Crawford (left) and borrough mayor Mike Navarre (right) look on during the Kenai Climate Conference at Kenai Peninsula College on Saturday March 28.

Global change, local action

Scientists and citizens met to discuss the global ecological phenomenon of climate change in relation to Kenai Peninsula communities last weekend. The Central Peninsula League… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Kenai vice-mayor Brian Gabriel (center) answers an audience question as panel moderator Sammy Crawford (left) and borrough mayor Mike Navarre (right) look on during the Kenai Climate Conference at Kenai Peninsula College on Saturday March 28.

Legislative Information Office teleconference schedule for March 30

Monday 3:15 p.m.The House Labor & Commerce Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 47 PERS Contributions by Municipalities. Testimony will be taken.Tuesday… Continue reading

  • Mar 29, 2015
This June 2014 photo courtesy of Michael & Melissa Kaufman shows the cluttered desk belonging to their ninth-grade daughter, Rebekah.  Although the Kaufmans bought Rebekah the desk so she would have a place to study, she instead uses it as "a repository for the four outfits she tried on earlier that day and rejected," Melissa says. Rebekah prefers doing homework on her bed. (AP Photo/Michael Kaufman)

Bedroom desk? It’s somewhere under all that junk

Alyssa Kimble, a fourth-grader in White Plains, New York, says she uses the desk in her bedroom for “everything” — creating lesson plans for her… Continue reading

  • Mar 29, 2015
  • By DIANA MARSZALEK
  • Schools
This June 2014 photo courtesy of Michael & Melissa Kaufman shows the cluttered desk belonging to their ninth-grade daughter, Rebekah.  Although the Kaufmans bought Rebekah the desk so she would have a place to study, she instead uses it as "a repository for the four outfits she tried on earlier that day and rejected," Melissa says. Rebekah prefers doing homework on her bed. (AP Photo/Michael Kaufman)
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion George Holly tells about his composition of the Dena'ina-language song "Kahtna Tuygea" during the Alaska Native Oratory Society's speaking event at Kenai Peninsula College on Friday March 27.

Alaska Native orators speak

The nine speakers from the Alaskan Native community who presented at Friday’s Alaska Native Oratory event at Kenai Peninsula College, Kenai River Campus, offered their… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion George Holly tells about his composition of the Dena'ina-language song "Kahtna Tuygea" during the Alaska Native Oratory Society's speaking event at Kenai Peninsula College on Friday March 27.

Bill to limit corporation role in alternate project advances

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Senate Resources Committee advanced legislation Friday that temporarily would restrict participation by a state-sponsored corporation in an alternate gas pipeline project… Continue reading

  • Mar 28, 2015
  • By Becky Bohrer

Soldotna encourages safe digging

The city of Soldotna digs safe excavating practices. During Wednesday’s city council meeting, Soldotna Mayor Nels Anderson proclaimed April as “Safe Digging Month.” Digging haphazardly… Continue reading

  • Mar 28, 2015
  • By IAN FOLEY

Soldotna considers new investment strategy

Soldotna’s current investment returns are just a drop in the bucket compared to their potential. At a workshop on Wednesday, members of the Soldotna City… Continue reading

  • Mar 28, 2015
  • By IAN FOLEY

Panels propose cuts to education, public defender agency

JUNEAU, Alaska) — Alaska’s top public defender said Friday that there will be delays in criminal trials and appeals if a proposed $1.2 million cut… Continue reading

  • Mar 28, 2015
  • By Becky Bohrer
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  DOWL HKM Environmental Specialist Paul Pribyl talks with a community member after presenting the results of a groundwater movement study on Monday March 23, 2015 in Nikiski, Alaska.

Nikiski water study finds two aquifers

Results are in and the groundwater in central Nikiski could be travelling in several different directions. Researchers with DOWL HKM presented the results of a… Continue reading

  • Mar 26, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  DOWL HKM Environmental Specialist Paul Pribyl talks with a community member after presenting the results of a groundwater movement study on Monday March 23, 2015 in Nikiski, Alaska.

Police identify remains as missing Kenai family

The remains of two of the four people found in a field in north Kenai have been confirmed by the State Medical Examiner to be… Continue reading

  • Mar 26, 2015

Non-motorized boat users off the hook for larger fees

Users of the Kenai River may catch a break when it comes to paying fees. At Wednesday’s Soldotna city council meeting, a resolution was adopted… Continue reading

  • Mar 26, 2015
  • By IAN FOLEY
FILE - In this 2007 file photo, an oil transit pipeline runs across the tundra to flow station at the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's North Slope. The U.S. should immediately begin a push to exploit its enormous trove of oil in the Arctic waters off of Alaska, or risk a renewed reliance on imported oil in the future, an Energy Department advisory council says in a study to be released Friday, March 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

Oil council: Shale won’t last, Arctic drilling needed now

WASHINGTON — The U.S. should immediately begin a push to exploit its enormous trove of oil in the Arctic waters off of Alaska, or risk… Continue reading

  • Mar 26, 2015
  • By JONATHAN FAHEY
FILE - In this 2007 file photo, an oil transit pipeline runs across the tundra to flow station at the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's North Slope. The U.S. should immediately begin a push to exploit its enormous trove of oil in the Arctic waters off of Alaska, or risk a renewed reliance on imported oil in the future, an Energy Department advisory council says in a study to be released Friday, March 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

Legislative Finance director paints sobering budget picture

JUNEAU — The director of the Legislative Finance Division laid out a sobering picture of the state’s budget outlook Thursday, saying the economic impact of… Continue reading

  • Mar 26, 2015
  • By Becky Bohrer
Greg Brush Kendra Brush (foreground) and her father Greg Brush sit in side-by-side treestands during a white-tail deer hunt in Kansas in Nov. 2014.

Record-holding archer and her father reflect on hunt

Kendra Brush, a junior at Cook Inlet Academy, said she made her first big game kill in 2009. “It was a hog in Texas,” she… Continue reading

Greg Brush Kendra Brush (foreground) and her father Greg Brush sit in side-by-side treestands during a white-tail deer hunt in Kansas in Nov. 2014.
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Alaska Money Coach can see you online

Tom Woodward known as the Alaska Money Coach is a local licensed professional counselor who wants to help you make your peace with money, so… Continue reading

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