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Juneau Symphony conductor candidate Troy Quinn meets with locals during a meet-and-greet at the Baranof Hotel in November 2014.

Troy Quinn is ready to wow the Juneau audiences

Following an extensive nationwide search, the Juneau Symphony has selected a new music director and conductor to lead its orchestra: Troy Quinn of Los Angeles.… Continue reading

Juneau Symphony conductor candidate Troy Quinn meets with locals during a meet-and-greet at the Baranof Hotel in November 2014.

‘On-behalf’ payments swell school district budget numbers

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s budget for the 2015 fiscal year has nearly doubled, but residents aren’t footing the bill. The nearly $108 million… Continue reading

  • Jun 3, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Mike Matheny, of Kasilof, reacts after a 20-pound king salmon surprised him by hooking itself on his line as he fished on the Kasilof River after catching it on Tuesday June 2, 2015 near Crooked Creek in Kasilof, Alaska.

Photo: Fish on?

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  • Jun 3, 2015
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Mike Matheny, of Kasilof, reacts after a 20-pound king salmon surprised him by hooking itself on his line as he fished on the Kasilof River after catching it on Tuesday June 2, 2015 near Crooked Creek in Kasilof, Alaska.
(AP Photo/Peninsula Clarion, Rashah McChesney) An investigator marks a stump within a parameter set up on Sunday March 22, 2015 between Borgen Avenue and Alpine Drive where Kenai Police have what they believe to be the remains of a family who have been missing from their Kenai, Alaska home for more than 10 months. The remains were found fewer than 2 miles from the family's home.

Police believe remains of four found in Kenai field to be a murder-suicide

Police believe a mother and her two children found dead in a field in Kenai were killed by a man whose body was found nearby.… Continue reading

  • Jun 3, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney
(AP Photo/Peninsula Clarion, Rashah McChesney) An investigator marks a stump within a parameter set up on Sunday March 22, 2015 between Borgen Avenue and Alpine Drive where Kenai Police have what they believe to be the remains of a family who have been missing from their Kenai, Alaska home for more than 10 months. The remains were found fewer than 2 miles from the family's home.

Assembly supports schools, dings marketing and K-Beach flooded area

After months of planning and nearly two hours of last-minute wrangling, the Kenai Peninsula borough has a budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Borough Assembly… Continue reading

  • Jun 3, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney
Kim Haskell watches over Kenzie, a 2-year-old Newfoundland, that she hoped would make a good service dog for her.

Good dog, bad dog: What happens when a service dog doesn’t work out?

Kim Haskell, a 55-year-old Juneau woman whose medical issues require her to use a wheelchair to get around, was excited to pick up her new… Continue reading

Kim Haskell watches over Kenzie, a 2-year-old Newfoundland, that she hoped would make a good service dog for her.
Annual Spill Drill tests response for virtual Cook Inlet scenario

Annual Spill Drill tests response for virtual Cook Inlet scenario

While folks were preparing their barbeque grill for Memorial Day celebrations, Tesoro and CISPRI (Cook Inlet Spill Response Inc.) were preparing and testing equipment and… Continue reading

Annual Spill Drill tests response for virtual Cook Inlet scenario
Twin City Raceway "Test and Tunes" for summer oval racing season

Twin City Raceway “Test and Tunes” for summer oval racing season

The summer racing season at Twin Cities Raceway oval dirt track got off to a smokin’ start last week as racers from around Alaska turned… Continue reading

Twin City Raceway "Test and Tunes" for summer oval racing season
Midnight Sun Big Sit turns in big specie count

Midnight Sun Big Sit turns in big specie count

The third annual 24 consecutive hour “Midnight Sun Big Sit” took place again this year during the Kenai Bird Festival. The 2015 Kenai Birding Festival’s… Continue reading

Midnight Sun Big Sit turns in big specie count
Remembering the fallen while living free: Memorial Day 2015

Remembering the fallen while living free: Memorial Day 2015

Memorial Day services in Kenai and Soldotna offered local families the opportunity to gather in remembrance of those who stood up to defend our liberties… Continue reading

Remembering the fallen while living free: Memorial Day 2015
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Workers took a core sample of the earth near Autumn Road, Thursday October 9, 2014 in Nikiski where the Alaska LNG project has been buying land and planning to build an LNG facility at the terminus of a pipeline in a project that, if built, would be the largest of its kind in the world.

Alaska LNG exports to non-free-trade countries authorized

Editor's note: The estimated cost of the Alaska LNG project was originally misstated in this article. It is $45-65 billion.  The pipeline proposed by the… Continue reading

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Workers took a core sample of the earth near Autumn Road, Thursday October 9, 2014 in Nikiski where the Alaska LNG project has been buying land and planning to build an LNG facility at the terminus of a pipeline in a project that, if built, would be the largest of its kind in the world.
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Cliff Heus, of Kenai, prepares to leave written feedback for Alaska Department of Transportation project organizers on May 28, 2015 during a public meeting on the Kenai Spur Highway Rehabilitation Project in Soldotna, Alaska. Heus said he was primarily concerned with the highway's intersection with Strawberry Road - which he said was confusing and needed to be better aligned.

Kenai Spur rehab project searches for focus

A project designed to improve a heavily-used highway corridor between Kenai and Soldotna is moving forward, despite missing more than half of the estimated $40… Continue reading

  • Jun 2, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Cliff Heus, of Kenai, prepares to leave written feedback for Alaska Department of Transportation project organizers on May 28, 2015 during a public meeting on the Kenai Spur Highway Rehabilitation Project in Soldotna, Alaska. Heus said he was primarily concerned with the highway's intersection with Strawberry Road - which he said was confusing and needed to be better aligned.
Photo courtesy Malia Acovak Malia Acovak stands with her mentor Jennifer Swander, English teacher at Seward High School. Swander suggested Acovak apply for the scholarship and helped her throughout the one-year-long process.

Two KPBSD students earn Gates scholarships

When Malia Acovak learned she would have her entire college education paid for, she started screaming in the middle of the Seward post office. Acovak,… Continue reading

  • Jun 2, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo courtesy Malia Acovak Malia Acovak stands with her mentor Jennifer Swander, English teacher at Seward High School. Swander suggested Acovak apply for the scholarship and helped her throughout the one-year-long process.

Where things stand in the Alaska Legislature

JUNEAU — If you have a sense of deja vu, you’re not alone. The Alaska Legislature is seemingly right back to where it was more… Continue reading

  • Jun 2, 2015
  • By Becky Bohrer
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Anglers try in vain to catch a king salmon near the mouth of the Ninilchik River on May 23, 2015 in Ninilchik, Alaska. Many reported the area to be slow that day, the open weekend on the river for the 2015 king salmon season. Fish and Game biologists have seen a strong early return of king salmon stocks on southern and central Kenai Peninsula streams, but area not yet certain of the size or timing of the run.

Despite promising numbers, king salmon managers still uncertain about run strength

Editor's note: this story has been corrected as it contained an inaccurate geographical description for the Deshka river. It runs into the Susitna River. A… Continue reading

  • May 31, 2015
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Anglers try in vain to catch a king salmon near the mouth of the Ninilchik River on May 23, 2015 in Ninilchik, Alaska. Many reported the area to be slow that day, the open weekend on the river for the 2015 king salmon season. Fish and Game biologists have seen a strong early return of king salmon stocks on southern and central Kenai Peninsula streams, but area not yet certain of the size or timing of the run.
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion A Hip Hop group performs during the first act of Vergine's Dance Studio Annual Recital Saturday, May 23, 2015 at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska.

On with the show

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  • Jun 1, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion A Hip Hop group performs during the first act of Vergine's Dance Studio Annual Recital Saturday, May 23, 2015 at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska.

Local Ag support already seeing cuts

Agriculture support programs on the Kenai Peninsula will soon be feeling the effects of statewide budget cuts. The Kenai Soil and Water Conservation District is… Continue reading

  • Jun 1, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan

School board addresses student medical policies

The Board of Education on Monday approved revisions to board policy that will allow parents to approve the administration of medication by a non-licensed staff… Continue reading

  • Jun 1, 2015
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Juneau APOC office skeletal after cuts

When the local office of the Alaska Public Offices Commission became a casualty of the governor’s fiscal year 2016 budget in February, the Juneau delegation… Continue reading

  • Jun 1, 2015
  • By KATIE MORITZ

Environmental groups to challenge Arctic lease sale again

ANCHORAGE (AP) — A dozen environmental groups told a federal court Monday they are renewing a challenge to the 2008 federal petroleum lease sale off… Continue reading

  • Jun 1, 2015