Increasing energy costs make saving a challenge

With rising energy costs, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District continues to try to reduce energy consumption to save money.While utilities make up slightly more… Continue reading

  • Jul 6, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI
John Perkins, pictured with his drum, educates tourists on the uses of Sitka spruce trees, hemlock trees, and red alder trees, June 26, 2014. Perkins is a Goldbelt Mount Roberts Tram conductor. (AP Photo/Capital City Weekly, Mary Catharine Martin)

Tram conductor gives Tlingit lessons on ride

JUNEAU — John Perkins starts his daily journeys up Mount Roberts with a few lessons in basic Tlingit.Then he gets out his drum and breaks… Continue reading

  • Jul 6, 2014
  • By MARY CATHARINE MARTIN
John Perkins, pictured with his drum, educates tourists on the uses of Sitka spruce trees, hemlock trees, and red alder trees, June 26, 2014. Perkins is a Goldbelt Mount Roberts Tram conductor. (AP Photo/Capital City Weekly, Mary Catharine Martin)
In this June 18, 2014, photo, volunteer workers, from left, Brant Brantman, Bridger Williams, Xaver Clarke and Jesse Brantman hold up some of the iron balls they found mixed in the rocks they were removing from the Hames Center roof in Sitka, Alaska. The balls likely came from the same place as the rocks --the Indian River area, the site of battles between Tlingit Natives and Russians in 1804. They may be Russian canister shot fired from ship's cannons. (AP Photo/Daily Sitka Sentinel, James Poulson)

Sitka roof project raises echo of 1804 battle

SITKA — Roofing volunteers or amateur archaeologists?The workers on the Hames Center reroofing project thought of themselves as both last week after finding about 20… Continue reading

  • Jul 6, 2014
  • By SHANNON HAUGLAND
In this June 18, 2014, photo, volunteer workers, from left, Brant Brantman, Bridger Williams, Xaver Clarke and Jesse Brantman hold up some of the iron balls they found mixed in the rocks they were removing from the Hames Center roof in Sitka, Alaska. The balls likely came from the same place as the rocks --the Indian River area, the site of battles between Tlingit Natives and Russians in 1804. They may be Russian canister shot fired from ship's cannons. (AP Photo/Daily Sitka Sentinel, James Poulson)

Tribes seek to intervene in Pebble lawsuit

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A consortium of tribes is seeking to intervene in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a lawsuit challenging EPA’s… Continue reading

  • Jul 5, 2014

Kenai Peninsula Peony industry a growing one

Peony growers on the Kenai Peninsula are preparing for a future of internationally competitive production and cultivating a new population of growers. At the annual… Continue reading

  • Jul 5, 2014
  • By Kelly Sullivan

[+Slideshow] Thousands turn out for Independence Day

Before the Independence Day parade began in Kenai, Trading Bay Drive was a loudly chaotic jumble of star-spangled puppies, sugar and sun-soaked kids and last-minute… Continue reading

  • Jul 4, 2014
  • By KELLY SULLIVAN and RASHAH McCHESNEY

Binkley Street improvements on schedule

Less than one month after the opening of the first roundabout at the intersection of Binkley Street and Wilson Lane, the downtown improvement plan is… Continue reading

  • Jul 5, 2014
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Cody Slemp uses a shovel to keep a pre-asphalt leveling material pouring out of a dump truck as a NorthStar Paving and Construction crew works on a new portion of a bicycle trail running along Kalifornsky Beach Road Thursday July 3, 2014 in Kenai, Alaska.

[Photo] A smooth ride

Bicycle path crew standalone… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Cody Slemp uses a shovel to keep a pre-asphalt leveling material pouring out of a dump truck as a NorthStar Paving and Construction crew works on a new portion of a bicycle trail running along Kalifornsky Beach Road Thursday July 3, 2014 in Kenai, Alaska.

Fort Wainright fined for EPA violation

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Army garrison in Fairbanks will pay nearly $160,000 to government regulators after being found in violation of an act designed… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
  • By Associated Press

Alaska VA has difficult recruiting, staffer says

JUNEAU, Alaska — The chief of staff for the Alaska Veterans Affairs Health Care System said Thursday that recruitment of doctors and nurses is one… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
  • By Becky Bohrer

Gulls killed to clear Kenai runway

After 16 years of living 700 feet away from the Kenai Municipal Airport runway, Les and Susan Bradley have become accustomed to the sound of… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER

City discusses protection for employee sexual orientation in personnel regs

While an ordinance to amend personnel regulations for the City of Kenai was postponed for the second consecutive meeting, the council voted to include protections… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  The Kasilof River Personal Use permit July 19, 2013 in Kasilof, Alaska.

Fish and Game loosens fishing restrictions to slow Kasilof sockeye run

They’ve tried bringing the drift fleet closer to the Kasilof, the commercial setnet fishery was opened early, and now managers are adding newly liberalized personal-use… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  The Kasilof River Personal Use permit July 19, 2013 in Kasilof, Alaska.

Voters to advise assembly on animal control

Voters on Oct. 7 will be asked to advise the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly whether the borough should exercise animal control practices.At recent meetings, citizens… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Shawn Schooley, one of the designers of the new singletrack mountain bike trail at the Tsalteshi Trails Wednesday July 2, 2014 on the Mosquito Trail in Soldotna, Alaska.

Singletrack minds: New trail takes shape at Tsalteshi

Mountain bikers have a new trail to shred on the central Kenai Peninsula. After three weeks of cutting through moss, roots and fallen trees, volunteers… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Shawn Schooley, one of the designers of the new singletrack mountain bike trail at the Tsalteshi Trails Wednesday July 2, 2014 on the Mosquito Trail in Soldotna, Alaska.
This June 2014 photo released by explore.org shows an owl sitting near the site of the explore.org live camera set up in Barrow, Alaska. A high-definition camera on a burrow near the nation's northernmost city is allowing researchers and any bird viewer with an Internet connection an unfettered view into the nesting den of an Arctic snowy owl. (AP Photo/explore.org, Tiffany Sears)

Live cam shows Arctic snowy owl, chicks in nest

ANCHORAGE — A high-definition camera trained on a burrow near the nation’s northernmost city is allowing researchers and any bird viewer with an Internet connection… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
  • By Mark Thiessen
This June 2014 photo released by explore.org shows an owl sitting near the site of the explore.org live camera set up in Barrow, Alaska. A high-definition camera on a burrow near the nation's northernmost city is allowing researchers and any bird viewer with an Internet connection an unfettered view into the nesting den of an Arctic snowy owl. (AP Photo/explore.org, Tiffany Sears)

Landing a Kenai king

It was an exciting king salmon opener on the Kenai River for 10-year-old Gavin Fox, of Anchorage who landed a 30-pounder while fishing with his… Continue reading

Just out of sight, an overlooked set of fishing locations

During the fast paced summer salmon runs, access is everything. Anglers want to know where the fish are and occasionally risk a rogue hook just… Continue reading

All about the salmon

Fishing opportunity is picking up on the Kenai Peninsula as salmon runs to area streams continue. Numerous lake and marine water fishing opportunities are also… Continue reading

Kenai puts grant money to use

The Kenai City Council officially appropriated five state capital grants that totaled $4.6 million dollars through five separate ordinances at Wednesday’s meeting. Legislative grants for… Continue reading

  • Jul 2, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER