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Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Kenai Senior Center cook Melissa "Missy" Bailey examines a frozen, vacuum-packed sockeye fillet donated to the Senior Center by the Alaska Salmon Alliance on Wednesday, Sept. 23 in the kitchen of the Kenai Senior Center.

Kenai Senior Center receives salmon donation

Fifty pounds of frozen sockeye salmon arrived at the Kenai Senior Center on Wednesday afternoon, the first shipment of what will be 300 pounds of… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Kenai Senior Center cook Melissa "Missy" Bailey examines a frozen, vacuum-packed sockeye fillet donated to the Senior Center by the Alaska Salmon Alliance on Wednesday, Sept. 23 in the kitchen of the Kenai Senior Center.

Board to review extra-curricular leave by coaches

The Board of Education is reviewing the amount of time teachers who double as coaches spend on the road and out of the classroom to… Continue reading

  • Sep 23, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, reads through a budget presentation with Alaska's budget director Pat Pitney during a joint chamber luncheon event on Wednesday Sept. 23, 2015 in Soldotna, Alaska.

Audience weighs in on state budget

While talk of touching the yearly dividend checks for Alaskans can be tantamount to cursing in some circles, the majority of the more than 200… Continue reading

  • Sep 23, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, reads through a budget presentation with Alaska's budget director Pat Pitney during a joint chamber luncheon event on Wednesday Sept. 23, 2015 in Soldotna, Alaska.
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Anglers work the mouth of the Upper Kenai River outlet into Skilak Lake near Doroshin Bay on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015 near Cooper Landing, Alaska. A Texas man was mauled on Tuesday near the Doroshin Bay Cabin during a moose hunting trip.

Texas man recovering following bear attack

A Texas man mauled by a brown bear near Skilak Lake Tuesday night is recovering at Central Peninsula Hospital from what troopers have called serious… Continue reading

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Anglers work the mouth of the Upper Kenai River outlet into Skilak Lake near Doroshin Bay on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015 near Cooper Landing, Alaska. A Texas man was mauled on Tuesday near the Doroshin Bay Cabin during a moose hunting trip.

Remains of missing Colorado man found

The body of 34-year-old Daniel Compeau, a Colorado man who went missing near Kenai Lake last month, has been found, Alaska State Troopers say. Soldotna… Continue reading

A Kenai Peninsula Borough employee measures the stairs at Chapman School in Anchor Point Tuesday. Ramps are being installed at the school to help Anglelica Haakenson get around campus. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

Back on her feet: Anchor Point girl returns to school after accident

She walks slowly, but Angelica Haakenson is back on her feet in Anchor Point. Haakenson, 12, lost both her legs in a car accident on… Continue reading

A Kenai Peninsula Borough employee measures the stairs at Chapman School in Anchor Point Tuesday. Ramps are being installed at the school to help Anglelica Haakenson get around campus. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

Mediation yields no results for school district, associations

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and the Kenai Peninsula Education and the Kenai Peninsula Education Support associations did not reach a tentative agreement through… Continue reading

  • Sep 22, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
In this 2015 photo released by the University of Alaska Museum of the North, a handful of dinosaur bones are seen after they were discovered at the Liscomb Bonebed on the Colville River, near Nuiqsut , Alaska. Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have found a third distinct dinosaur species documented on Alaska's oil-rich North Slope. The new species is a type of hadrosaur, a duck-billed plant-eater. (Pat Druckenmiller/UA Museum of the North via AP)

New duck-billed dinosaur found in Alaska, researchers say

ANCHORAGE — Fossils from a unique plant-eating dinosaur found in the high Arctic of Alaska may change how scientists view dinosaur physiology, say Alaska and… Continue reading

  • Sep 22, 2015
  • By Dan Joling
In this 2015 photo released by the University of Alaska Museum of the North, a handful of dinosaur bones are seen after they were discovered at the Liscomb Bonebed on the Colville River, near Nuiqsut , Alaska. Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have found a third distinct dinosaur species documented on Alaska's oil-rich North Slope. The new species is a type of hadrosaur, a duck-billed plant-eater. (Pat Druckenmiller/UA Museum of the North via AP)

October session on TransCanada buyout coming

It appears a fall special session is back on after Gov. Bill Walker met with a small group of legislators Monday to discuss issues key… Continue reading

  • Sep 22, 2015
  • By ELWOOD BREHMER

Alaska poverty rate jumps to 11.2 percent in 2014

New census data shows that poverty has increased in Alaska, but it may not be as simple as the numbers make it look. Alaska’s statewide… Continue reading

Seventh-grade student Shania Sommer of Palmer, Alaska, announces that nearly every Alaskan will receive $2,072 from this year's oil dividend check during a news conference Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, in Anchorage, Alaska. Sommer was chosen by the office of Gov. Bill Walker to reveal the amount of this year's check. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Photo: Show us the money

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  • Sep 21, 2015
Seventh-grade student Shania Sommer of Palmer, Alaska, announces that nearly every Alaskan will receive $2,072 from this year's oil dividend check during a news conference Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, in Anchorage, Alaska. Sommer was chosen by the office of Gov. Bill Walker to reveal the amount of this year's check. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

School district, associations start mediation

Closed mediation has begun between the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and the Kenai Peninsula Education and the Kenai Peninsula Education Support associations. Negotiating teams… Continue reading

  • Sep 21, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
This Thursday, June 2, 2015 photo shows a so-called honey bucket _ a large bucket used as a toilet without running water _ at the tribal council office in the village of Kipnuk, Alaska. Flush toilets and running water remain elusive dreams for residents of at least 30 Alaska villages where indoor plumbing has historically cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to install in just one home. (Corey DiRutigliano, Cold Climate Housing Research Center via AP)

In 2015, nearly 3 dozen Alaska villages lack basic plumbing

ANCHORAGE — Flush toilets and running water are elusive dreams for Paul Dock and other residents of impoverished Alaska villages where indoor plumbing has historically… Continue reading

  • Sep 21, 2015
  • By Rachel D'oro
This Thursday, June 2, 2015 photo shows a so-called honey bucket _ a large bucket used as a toilet without running water _ at the tribal council office in the village of Kipnuk, Alaska. Flush toilets and running water remain elusive dreams for residents of at least 30 Alaska villages where indoor plumbing has historically cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to install in just one home. (Corey DiRutigliano, Cold Climate Housing Research Center via AP)

AK LNG makes technical progress, economics still a challenge

Alaska LNG Project managers presented an upbeat report on technical progress of the giant gas project in a Sept. 9 briefing to legislators, but also… Continue reading

  • Sep 21, 2015
  • By Tim Bradner

PFD payout: $2,072

ANCHORAGE (AP) — Most Alaskans will receive $2,072 each in this year's payout from state's oil investment fund, state officials announced today.… Continue reading

  • Sep 21, 2015

KRS Learning Center offering free NETS course

The Learning Center will be offering a free, ten-week workshop entitled, “NETS: Focusing on Success for ‘New’ Students,” from 1-3:30 p.m. beginning today, Sept. 21… Continue reading

  • Sep 20, 2015

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

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Sixth grade student Kaytlyn Walden is crowned the new Queen of Reading for having read the most over the summer during a RIGS assembly on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 at Kalifornski Beach Elementary in Soldotna, Alaska.

Queen of Reading crowned at annual RIGS assembly

After one summer and 335,950 minutes of reading, students at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary are ready to jump back into the school year without missing a… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Sixth grade student Kaytlyn Walden is crowned the new Queen of Reading for having read the most over the summer during a RIGS assembly on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 at Kalifornski Beach Elementary in Soldotna, Alaska.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Eager apple samplers file past several varieties and score them during an apple tasting on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at O'Brien Garden and Trees in Nikiski, Alaska.

How do you like them apples?

A bushel of people waited patiently in line on a chilly Sunday afternoon to get a taste of the apples at O’Brien Garden and Trees… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Eager apple samplers file past several varieties and score them during an apple tasting on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at O'Brien Garden and Trees in Nikiski, Alaska.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion From left to right: Brandi Kerley, Gail Knobf and Lois Pillifant discuss the barriers to getting young people to register to vote on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 at a table set up by the Central Peninsula League of Women Voters at the Kenai Peninsula College in Soldotna, Alaska.

League of Women Voters reaches out to students

With local elections around the corner, members of the Central Peninsula League of Women Voters took to the halls of Kenai Peninsula College’s campus to… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion From left to right: Brandi Kerley, Gail Knobf and Lois Pillifant discuss the barriers to getting young people to register to vote on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 at a table set up by the Central Peninsula League of Women Voters at the Kenai Peninsula College in Soldotna, Alaska.