Yukon River salmon swim to Canada in record high numbers

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Despite a below-average overall run, the Yukon River king salmon population had the highest number of chinooks make it across the border… Continue reading

  • Aug 24, 2015

Car crash slows traffic on Kenai Spur Highway

A two-vehicle collision has left at least one car disabled and slowed traffic at the Kenai Spur Highway and Airport Way intersection. The Kenai Police… Continue reading

Fun at Carnival

Fun at Carnival

After a summer of mostly perfect weekends the Sterling Community Center drew one of the wettest this year for their first Sterling Community Center Fun… Continue reading

Fun at Carnival
Recipe - Seasons Best (FW15 SB)

Family dining action

(NAPS)—Here’s an idea many families may warm up to: You can cook up some togetherness and nourish your relationships when you create great, comforting and… Continue reading

Recipe - Seasons Best (FW15 SB)
Grill opens

Grill opens

“The Place” has been an iconic location for oil field workers on the North Rd. for nearly 50 years. A home away from home for… Continue reading

Grill opens
Guide  takes kids fishing

Guide takes kids fishing

For the last five years the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Kenai Peninsula and the Kenai River Foundation, an association of professional fishing guides… Continue reading

Guide  takes kids fishing

Arby’s wins Award

For a franchise store to capture a national award is a great achievement. Last week local family owners of Arby’s of Alaska Mike and Ted… Continue reading

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

  • Aug 24, 2015

Kenai Peninsula College kicks off

Preparations have been underway for the first day of classes at the Kenai River Campus all summer and students will notice a beautiful landscaped facility,… Continue reading

  • Aug 24, 2015
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Annetta Villa sells Valley's Bounty produce on Saturday August 22, 2015 at a farmer's market at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center in Kenai, Alaska.

Keeping it fresh: Farmers markets boost farms, economies

Alaska’s agriculture industry has one of the highest rates of Direct to Consumer sales in the nation. Increasingly, producers are taking advantage of farmer’s markets… Continue reading

  • Aug 23, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Annetta Villa sells Valley's Bounty produce on Saturday August 22, 2015 at a farmer's market at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center in Kenai, Alaska.
In this Aug. 4, 2015 photo provided by the University of North Dakota, UND pilot Schuyller "Sky" Andrew holds a Draganflyer X4ES drone that he flew on a test flight from the Lakota, N.D., airport that was conducted for the Northern Plains UAS Test Site. The North Dakota site has been granted approval by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones about 200 feet and fly them at night. It is the first of six national test sites to fly at night. (Andrew Regenhard/University of North Dakota via AP)

North Dakota drone test site set to fly high at all hours

FARGO, N.D. — Of the six sites in the U.S. where researchers are trying to figure out how to integrate unmanned aircraft into civilian airspace,… Continue reading

  • Aug 23, 2015
  • By DAVE KOLPACK
In this Aug. 4, 2015 photo provided by the University of North Dakota, UND pilot Schuyller "Sky" Andrew holds a Draganflyer X4ES drone that he flew on a test flight from the Lakota, N.D., airport that was conducted for the Northern Plains UAS Test Site. The North Dakota site has been granted approval by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones about 200 feet and fly them at night. It is the first of six national test sites to fly at night. (Andrew Regenhard/University of North Dakota via AP)

Larger clinics planned for Savoonga, Gambell

ANCHORAGE — Two of Alaska’s most remote villages are getting new, larger clinics in an effort to improve health care services for residents of the… Continue reading

  • Aug 23, 2015
  • By Rachel D'oro
Sterling elementary school principal Denise Kelly speaks to students about this year's Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies program during  an assembly at Sterling Elementary School on Wednesday, August 19.

Sterling Elementary students rewarded with pom-poms

This year Sterling elementary school students will be collecting pom-poms -- colorful fuzzy balls -- as tokens of good behavior. Teachers will award students with… Continue reading

Sterling elementary school principal Denise Kelly speaks to students about this year's Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies program during  an assembly at Sterling Elementary School on Wednesday, August 19.
Emergency responders from Central Emergency Services respond to the scene of a fatal plane crash on Saturday August 22, 2015 on South Coho Loop Road in Kasilof, Alaska.

Two killed in Kasilof plane crash

This is a breaking news story that will be updated periodically with new information.  Update: Alaska State Troopers have confirmed that two people were killed… Continue reading

  • Aug 22, 2015
  • By RASHAH MCCHESNEY and BEN BOETTGER
Emergency responders from Central Emergency Services respond to the scene of a fatal plane crash on Saturday August 22, 2015 on South Coho Loop Road in Kasilof, Alaska.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Lisa Roberts, representing the Kenai Peninsula United Way, addresses a group of potential volunteers during a kickoff meeting for the annual Project Homeless Connect event, held Thursday, Aug. 20 2015, at the Soldotna Public Library in Soldotna, Alaska.

Planning for progress

Organizers of this year’s Project Homeless Connect began recruiting volunteers with the first ever kickoff meeting for the event, held Thursday evening at the Soldotna… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Lisa Roberts, representing the Kenai Peninsula United Way, addresses a group of potential volunteers during a kickoff meeting for the annual Project Homeless Connect event, held Thursday, Aug. 20 2015, at the Soldotna Public Library in Soldotna, Alaska.

Lightning strikes Soldotna business

The Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council building was struck by lightning late Friday afternoon in the midst of a storm that passed over the Central… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion 4H member Katya Correa pins a blue ribbon over the pen of her champion medium-wieght pig Storm during the small-stock showing of the Kenai Peninsula State Fair at the Ninilchik Fairgrounds on Friday, August 21.

Local livestock gets a fair judging

This weekend the Ninilchik Fairground is the site of the Kenai Peninsula Fair, providing an opportunity for local livestock-raising families and rodeo-riders to display their… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion 4H member Katya Correa pins a blue ribbon over the pen of her champion medium-wieght pig Storm during the small-stock showing of the Kenai Peninsula State Fair at the Ninilchik Fairgrounds on Friday, August 21.

Assembly takes up, delays K-Beach flooding issues

Two proposals designed to address flooding issues in the Kalifornsky Beach Road area were left unresolved after the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly’s Tuesday meeting.One proposal… Continue reading

  • Aug 20, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney

Annual food bank auction to fill bowls, involve community

Local organizers are gearing up to make sure this year’s Soup Supper Auction fills as many stomachs as possible, both at the annual event and… Continue reading

Seward man arrested for biting off portion of another’s finger

A Seward man has been arrested and arraigned on an assault charge after troopers say he bit the tip of another man’s finger off.The Soldotna… Continue reading