Soup supper helps Food Bank solve hunger

From its humble beginnings the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank’s Soup Supper has grown tremendously to where it now overflows the entire Kenai Central High School… Continue reading

KPAR selects Marti Pepper as Realtor of the Year at Annual Membership meeting

The Kenai Peninsula Association of REALTORS® (KPAR) gathered August 27th for their annual General Membership Meeting and Board of Director Election. Marti Pepper with Redoubt… Continue reading

Appreciation for the hand that feed us.

Appreciation for the hand that feed us.

Twenty five years ago when consensus was the Cook Inlet was a declining oil field and support industry was shuttering their doors on the North… Continue reading

Appreciation for the hand that feed us.
Eat Salmon

Eat Salmon

About 200 people gathered at Soldotna Creek Park Thursday August 27 not only to eat salmon, but also to save salmon. Local conservation, sport fishing,… Continue reading

Eat Salmon
Rotary takes on Arc Lake projest

Rotary takes on Arc Lake projest

“When the Kenai River-Soldotna Rotary Club was formed, the club got involved in the Highway Cleanup project like other organizations around the peninsula,” said Rotarian… Continue reading

Rotary takes on Arc Lake projest

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

  • Sep 7, 2015
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion XXX straps on a helmet Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, at Kenai Middle School in Kenai, Alaska.

Students savor bike program

Framing the front entrance of Kenai Middle School are racks stacked with Trek mountain bikes. They were not ridden to school by students, but purchased… Continue reading

  • Sep 6, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
  • Schools
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion XXX straps on a helmet Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, at Kenai Middle School in Kenai, Alaska.

KPC: College holiday closure reminder

All KPC locations will be closed from Sept. 5-7 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. In addition, there will be no classes held on… Continue reading

  • Sep 6, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
  • Schools

Scientists to measure ash stirred from 1912 Alaska eruption

ANCHORAGE — The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century created a 40-square mile desert known as the Valley of 10,000 Smokes on the Alaska… Continue reading

  • Sep 6, 2015
  • By Dan Joling
Reno news crews watch in the mountains above Lake Tahoe on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, as Nevada Department of Wildlife officials release a mother bear and cub trapped the day before on the lake's north shore near Crystal Bay, Nev. The vast majority of problem bears trapped at Tahoe are returned to the wild, but repeat offenders are euthanized when they lose their fear of humans. (Jack Kreamer, Nevada Department of Wildlife)

Are some bears just born to be bad?

RENO, Nev. — Are some bears just born to be bad? Or do they learn from other bears that raid garbage cans, break into cars… Continue reading

  • Sep 6, 2015
  • By SCOTT SONNER
Reno news crews watch in the mountains above Lake Tahoe on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, as Nevada Department of Wildlife officials release a mother bear and cub trapped the day before on the lake's north shore near Crystal Bay, Nev. The vast majority of problem bears trapped at Tahoe are returned to the wild, but repeat offenders are euthanized when they lose their fear of humans. (Jack Kreamer, Nevada Department of Wildlife)

Fairbanks officials content to sit on windfall

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Officials with the Fairbanks North Star Borough will be content to sit on a $10 million windfall, for a while at least.The… Continue reading

  • Sep 6, 2015
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Jeremy Souders helps his mother Sarah Souders switch hive frames Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Kenai, Alaska.

Fireweed yields tasty treats from local bees

Alaska’s wilderness provides resources for one of the purest honey harvests in the world, produced primarily from the Chamerion angustfolium, or fireweed bloom. On a… Continue reading

  • Sep 5, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Jeremy Souders helps his mother Sarah Souders switch hive frames Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Kenai, Alaska.

Kenaitze tribe allows DNA testing on Dena’ina remains

Members of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe could uncover valuable information about the population’s health and other historical trends through the study of ancestral remains returned… Continue reading

As state tightens belt, Community Revenue Sharing program may dry up

The annual dispersion of funds from the state to small communities statewide may grind to a halt in coming years.The state’s Community Revenue Sharing Program… Continue reading

ConocoPhillips to cut 10 percent of workforce

The impact of plummeting oil prices is finally hitting Alaska’s oilpatch. ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. said Tuesday it will cut about 10 percent of its 1,200… Continue reading

  • Sep 3, 2015
  • By Tim Bradner

Rising water causes flood advisory, takes dock down Kenai River

Rising water in the Kenai River caused a small dock to break loose from the Russian River Ferry service and led to the issuance of… Continue reading

Courtesty Photo/Verda Benson Kenai resident Verda Benson (left) visits with her mother, Fern Elam (right). Elam turned 105 on Sept. 4, 2015, and resides at Heritage Place in Soldotna, Alaska.

Local centenarian celebrates birthday

Surrounded by old family photos and birthday cards in her room at Soldotna’s continuing care facility Heritage Place, Fern Elam reflected on how much things… Continue reading

Courtesty Photo/Verda Benson Kenai resident Verda Benson (left) visits with her mother, Fern Elam (right). Elam turned 105 on Sept. 4, 2015, and resides at Heritage Place in Soldotna, Alaska.

Authorities issue fewer citations this dipnet season

The combined efforts of Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Alaska Department of Fish and Game personnel resulted in fewer citations being handed out during this year’s… Continue reading

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Rebekka Federer chases her two-year-old son Finn as he runs along the Seward Highway looking for his bicycle while police officers attempt to move a crowd away from Airport Road where President Barack Obama's motorcade drove to reach Exit Glacier on Tuesday Sept. 1, 2015 in Seward, Alaska.

President arrives in Seward

Standing at the bow of the Viewfinder, President Barack Obama gripped the steel railing as the boat cut through the deep blue water of Resurrection… Continue reading

  • Sep 1, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Rebekka Federer chases her two-year-old son Finn as he runs along the Seward Highway looking for his bicycle while police officers attempt to move a crowd away from Airport Road where President Barack Obama's motorcade drove to reach Exit Glacier on Tuesday Sept. 1, 2015 in Seward, Alaska.
Ben Boettger and Vincent Nusunginya The number of people in the Medicaid Intellectual and Developmental Disability waiver waitlist is shown in a line graph created on Wednesday, Sept. 2 at the Peninsula Clarion office in Kenai.

Medicaid developmental disability program reduces new users

An Alaska Medicaid program that funds care for developmentally-disabled adults may be reducing the number of people it enrolls each year by 75 percent. Medicaid’s… Continue reading

Ben Boettger and Vincent Nusunginya The number of people in the Medicaid Intellectual and Developmental Disability waiver waitlist is shown in a line graph created on Wednesday, Sept. 2 at the Peninsula Clarion office in Kenai.