School board candidates anticipate budget challenges

The three incumbents running unopposed for Board of Education seats face frugal funding in their next terms. With no challengers on the Oct. 6 ballot,… Continue reading

  • Oct 3, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Service area board candidates talk Nikiski law enforcement

If Nikiski voters pass Proposition 2 during Tuesday’s election, a service area board will be created along with a Nikiski Law Enforcement Service Area. The… Continue reading

Phone scam makes appearance in Soldotna

A Soldotna woman helped her neighbor avoid being the victim of a phone scam this week. Heidi Haberman said her older neighbor, Lorna Bunch, contacted… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Pattrick Morgan (center), flanked by teammates Sterling Rasmuson (left) and Camron Lotti, shoots at a clay pidgeon during the Shoot for a Cure trap-shooting fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Snoeshow Gun Club in Soldotna.
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Pattrick Morgan (center), flanked by teammates Sterling Rasmuson (left) and Camron Lotti, shoots at a clay pidgeon during the Shoot for a Cure trap-shooting fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Snoeshow Gun Club in Soldotna.

Political novices competing for assembly District 9 seat

Of the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s assembly districts, District 9 on the lower peninsula is one of the largest. At 3,400 square miles, as a Supercub… Continue reading

Homeless man in Anchorage uses homemade spear to kill bear

ANCHORAGE — A homeless man fashioned a machete-like blade to a groomed tree branch and speared a hungry black bear cub that was sniffing for… Continue reading

  • Oct 3, 2015
  • By Mark Thiessen

Broken pole knocks out power in Soldotna

A fallen power line on the Kenai Spur Highway on Friday caused 1,215 Soldotna customers of the Homer Electric Association to lose power. A broken… Continue reading

  • Oct 2, 2015
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Ben Carpenter, a prospective board member for a Nikiski Law Emforcement Service Area, takes questions during a community meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015, at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center in Nikiski, Alaska. Proposition 4 asks voters to approve the service area as well as a five-person board to oversee its direction.

Nikiski residents discuss law enforcement service area

Close to 100 Nikiski residents aired their concerns at a public hearing to address a measure on the Oct. 6 ballot that, if enacted, would… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Ben Carpenter, a prospective board member for a Nikiski Law Emforcement Service Area, takes questions during a community meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015, at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center in Nikiski, Alaska. Proposition 4 asks voters to approve the service area as well as a five-person board to oversee its direction.
Jane Fellman (right), coordinator of the Safe Kids of the Kenai Peninsula Coalition, hands out string backpacks at the annual walk to school event.

Walk this way

About 150 Kenai Peninsula School District students braved the cold to walk to their respective Soldotna schools Thursday morning, their breath forming little clouds of… Continue reading

Jane Fellman (right), coordinator of the Safe Kids of the Kenai Peninsula Coalition, hands out string backpacks at the annual walk to school event.
Photo/Miller Energy Resources The Osprey platform is one of several assets owned by Cook Inlet Energy and parent company Miller Energy Resources Inc., in the Cook Inlet, Alaska. Miller Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.

Cook Inlet Energy parent company files for bankruptcy protection

After more than a month of negotiations, Miller Energy Resources Inc. filed Thursday for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and reorganization. The parent company of Alaska… Continue reading

  • Oct 1, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo/Miller Energy Resources The Osprey platform is one of several assets owned by Cook Inlet Energy and parent company Miller Energy Resources Inc., in the Cook Inlet, Alaska. Miller Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion This Sept. 25 photo shows the word "Agony" spray-painted on a cement pylon beneath the Warren Ames Memorial Bridge in Kenai.

Display of remorse follows display of agony

Editor's note: This story has been changed to correct Massera's plea. He plead guilty to a misdemeanor, not a felony. A man who spray-painted the… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion This Sept. 25 photo shows the word "Agony" spray-painted on a cement pylon beneath the Warren Ames Memorial Bridge in Kenai.
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Dan Nelson, candidate for Soldotna City Council.

Soldotna council candidates weigh-in during sparsely attended forum

If the size of the crowd during the Soldotna City Council forum was any indicator of voter turnout for the municipal election, it’s going to… Continue reading

  • Sep 30, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Dan Nelson, candidate for Soldotna City Council.
District 1 hopefuls answer forum questions

District 1 hopefuls answer forum questions

Three of the candidates for the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly from District 1 made their case Wednesday at a forum hosted by the Kenai and… Continue reading

District 1 hopefuls answer forum questions
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Anglers fish below a rainbow on the upper Kenai River near its outlet into Skilak Lake on Sept. 21, 2015 near Cooper Landing, Alaska.
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Anglers fish below a rainbow on the upper Kenai River near its outlet into Skilak Lake on Sept. 21, 2015 near Cooper Landing, Alaska.

Early snow causes power outage

Winter hit the Central Kenai Peninsula a little early when flakes began to fall Tuesday evening, causing some Homer Electric Association members to lose power.An… Continue reading

  • Sep 30, 2015

Voters to decide future of CES equipment replacement

Proposition 4 on the Oct. 6 ballot will ask voters to allow the Kenai Peninsula Borough to issue $4.4 million in general obligation bonds. Central… Continue reading

Construction, property tax proposal offered for gas project

JUNEAU — A tentative agreement has been reached between the state and North Slope’s three major producers over payments for impacts on communities during the… Continue reading

  • Sep 30, 2015
  • By Becky Bohrer

Groups seek to end Arctic Ocean drilling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to end its quest for oil in the Arctic waters off Alaska sparked jubilation among environmental activists, who… Continue reading

  • Sep 29, 2015
  • By Dan Joling
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Plush caps mushroom caps cover concrete posts protecting a water conduit access hatch near Mountain Mama Originals craft shop on Tuesday, September 29 by the Sterling Highway in Soldotna. Susanna Evins, a seamstress at the shop, made the caps out of recycled plastic and scraps from the store.
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Plush caps mushroom caps cover concrete posts protecting a water conduit access hatch near Mountain Mama Originals craft shop on Tuesday, September 29 by the Sterling Highway in Soldotna. Susanna Evins, a seamstress at the shop, made the caps out of recycled plastic and scraps from the store.

Clinic answers elder law questions

Local residents armed themselves with the legal information they’ll need as they age during an elder law clinic on Tuesday at the Soldotna Public Library.Greg… Continue reading