Obama orders pollution cuts – but timing uncertain

WASHINGTON — Taking aim at global warming, President Barack Obama introduced a politically charged plan Monday to order big and lasting cuts in the pollution… Continue reading

  • Jun 2, 2014
  • By DINA CAPPIELLOand JOSH LEDERMAN

Waiting game

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is in the process of revising its budget due to state-level changes in funding. But more pieces of the… Continue reading

  • Jun 2, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  A cloud of smoke obscures the sky on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula as a fire that started near Funny River Road consumed more than 7,000 acres of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge land Tuesday May 20, 2014. The fire stretches nearly 10 miles long and is moving east and west along the bank of Tustumena Lake.

Human remains found by firefighters in Sterling

Fire crews working the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire found human remains near Sterling Sunday. Alaska State Troopers said the remains appeared to have been… Continue reading

  • Jun 2, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  A cloud of smoke obscures the sky on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula as a fire that started near Funny River Road consumed more than 7,000 acres of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge land Tuesday May 20, 2014. The fire stretches nearly 10 miles long and is moving east and west along the bank of Tustumena Lake.
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Firefighters involved in containing the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire gather for a photo at the appreciation dinner Sunday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. More than 700 firefighters from Alaska, Canada, Oregon and Montana have battled the blaze since it began on May 19.

Grateful community serves firefighters

With her clothes dirty and soot on her face from another long day on the fire line, Erin Kimsey, a member of the Wolf Creek… Continue reading

  • Jun 2, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Firefighters involved in containing the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire gather for a photo at the appreciation dinner Sunday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. More than 700 firefighters from Alaska, Canada, Oregon and Montana have battled the blaze since it began on May 19.

Human remains found by firefighters in Sterling

Fire crews working the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire found human remains near Sterling Sunday. Alaska State Troopers said the remains appeared to have been… Continue reading

  • Jun 2, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

[Photo] Kenai Fair

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  • Jun 1, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion

Candidates answer questions on Super PACS

JUNEAU, Alaska — This year’s U.S. Senate race in Alaska is the first major race here in the super PAC era. Independent expenditure groups, which… Continue reading

  • Jun 1, 2014
  • By Becky Bohrer

Active Alaskan volcano has low-level eruption

ANCHORAGE — Authorities at the Alaska Volcano Observatory say elevated surface temperatures suggest the Pavlof Volcano is having a low-level eruption with lava at the… Continue reading

  • Jun 1, 2014

Fire more than half contained, some hot spots still visible

Wet conditions continued Sunday as fire crews working on the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire continued to work on containing the controlled edges of the… Continue reading

  • Jun 1, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Dianna Prior listens to a co-worker and she and the other receiving and distribution managers assigned to the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire work to help crews demobolize the firefighting gear that is no longer being used Friday May 30, 2014 in Soldotna, Alaska.

Supply personnel keep firefighters fit to fight Funny River wildfire

On a cool, wet morning at a temporary open-air warehouse in Soldotna, Tom Vangs directs warehouseman Scott Johnson as the two stack firehose onto a… Continue reading

  • Jun 1, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Dianna Prior listens to a co-worker and she and the other receiving and distribution managers assigned to the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire work to help crews demobolize the firefighting gear that is no longer being used Friday May 30, 2014 in Soldotna, Alaska.

Kenai launches new city website

Internet surfers interested in doing business in the City of Kenai or visitors interested in life at the mouth of the Kenai River have a… Continue reading

  • May 31, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER

Funny River wildfire holds at 193,000 acres, burn ban lifted

As cool, damp conditions continued on the Kenai Peninsula, firefighters continued to make inroads on containing the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire. Despite improving conditions… Continue reading

  • May 31, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Patrick Moore, 25, will be moving to Japan in August to teach English to students through the JET - Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion

Local man heading to Japan to teach English

He’s lucky number seven, Yasuko Lehtinen said. Patrick Moore, is Kenai Peninsula College instructor Lehtinen’s seventh student to move to Japan to teach English through… Continue reading

  • May 31, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI
Patrick Moore, 25, will be moving to Japan in August to teach English to students through the JET - Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Brooke Jackson lost her father to non-small cell lung cancer. She cried during the opening ceremony, Friday, May 30, at the Central Peninsula Relay for Life.

Central Peninsula Relay for Life brings hope to walkers

The first time Herald Ochea learned his uncle, Buck Carroll, had cancer was on the drive to Kenai Central High School the 2014 year’s Central… Continue reading

  • May 31, 2014
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Brooke Jackson lost her father to non-small cell lung cancer. She cried during the opening ceremony, Friday, May 30, at the Central Peninsula Relay for Life.
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion The roof and portions of the grandstand Coral Seymour Memorial Park, or Oiler Park, blew off during an episode of heavy wind gusts Saturday May 31, 2014 in Kenai, Alaska.

Strong winds destroy roof, press box in Kenai park

When a tin roof goes, everybody knows. The sound was as unmistakable as it was loud when Ken and Cameron Cole and James Clark watched… Continue reading

  • May 31, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion The roof and portions of the grandstand Coral Seymour Memorial Park, or Oiler Park, blew off during an episode of heavy wind gusts Saturday May 31, 2014 in Kenai, Alaska.

Widespread power outages reported on the Kenai Peninsula

Several thousand people are without power as of noon Saturday as the Homer Electric Association responds to reports of a number of power outage. Approximately… Continue reading

  • May 31, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo contributed by Brian Nichols Firefighters rescued five wolf pups abandoned by mother during the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire.

Firefighters rescue abandoned wolf pups

Dehydrated and injured by porcupine quills — Hooper Bay, Huslia, Stebbens, Gannet and X-ray were named after the firefighters who rescued them and the area… Continue reading

  • May 28, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo contributed by Brian Nichols Firefighters rescued five wolf pups abandoned by mother during the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire.

Bulldog reporter Tkacz dies at 61

JUNEAU — Bob Tkacz may not have always been well-liked, but he was always respected, according to those who knew the longtime reporter. Tkacz was… Continue reading

  • May 30, 2014
  • By BY MELISSA GRIFFITHS

Funny River fire hits 192,000 acres, $6.1 million in costs

It has taken 10 days, 760 people and more than $6.1 million for firefighters to gain control of the spread of the Funny River Horse… Continue reading

  • May 29, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Marty Rogers and Michael Hatfield debrief after getting off their 24-hour-plus shift setting up the unmanned drones that will use unfrared radiation imaging to detect hotspots in the Funny River Fire, Thursday, May 29, at Kenai Peninsula College.

More than a place to sleep

A group of residents at the Kenai Peninsula College Residence Hall having been staying out all night and coming back long after dawn, while their… Continue reading

  • May 29, 2014
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Marty Rogers and Michael Hatfield debrief after getting off their 24-hour-plus shift setting up the unmanned drones that will use unfrared radiation imaging to detect hotspots in the Funny River Fire, Thursday, May 29, at Kenai Peninsula College.