Tight Lines: Mark your calendar

■ Beginning Fly Fishing Class: Kenai Peninsula College offers a one-credit beginning fly fishing class, which includes equipment selection and casting, and is geared toward… Continue reading

Tight Lines: For a great summer fishing trip, start planning now

It was early July and as the floatplane ascended, wings waving in farewell as it headed back to Dillingham, I tried to ignore the slight… Continue reading

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Chambers set shedules ■ On Tuesday, the Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce will host a joint luncheon at noon at the Soldotna Regional Sports… Continue reading

  • Feb 19, 2014
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Clare Henry, a student from Cook Inlet Academy, waits for a fish to bite Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014 during the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's ice fishing day, part of its Salmon in the Classroom curriculum, on Sport Lake in Soldotna, Alaska.
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Clare Henry, a student from Cook Inlet Academy, waits for a fish to bite Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014 during the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's ice fishing day, part of its Salmon in the Classroom curriculum, on Sport Lake in Soldotna, Alaska.
Republican Alaskan Congressman Don Young speaks to about 100 people at Wednesday's Kenai and Soldotna joint chamber luncheon. Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion

Young talks states’ rights, oil and gas development

Republican Congressman Don Young spoke to a full house at Wednesday’s Kenai and Soldotna joint chamber luncheon.He addressed attendees about the lack of “positive action… Continue reading

  • Feb 19, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI
Republican Alaskan Congressman Don Young speaks to about 100 people at Wednesday's Kenai and Soldotna joint chamber luncheon. Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion

The event will go on, the ride may not

Warm temperatures that plagued the Kenai Peninsula in January, melting snow and ice, have raised concerns about whether the Way Out Women snowmachiners will ride… Continue reading

  • Feb 19, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski addresses reporters during a news conference following her speech to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Murkowski blasts federal rejection of refuge road

JUNEAU — The Interior Department’s rejection of a road through a national wildlife refuge that could aid patients in a small Alaska village is emblematic… Continue reading

  • Feb 19, 2014
  • By Becky Bohrer
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski addresses reporters during a news conference following her speech to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Feds: No more false starts on Alaska gas pipeline

JUNEAU — Federal agencies are ready to work on an Alaska liquefied natural gas project but don’t want another false start, state lawmakers were told… Continue reading

  • Feb 19, 2014
  • By Becky Bohrer

Supreme Court affirms pipeline value decision

ANCHORAGE — The Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday handed Alaska municipalities a victory in a dispute over the value of the trans-Alaska pipeline, affirming that… Continue reading

  • Feb 19, 2014
  • By Dan Joling
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Ben Griess hangs a ribbon upon which he wrote "Gone Home" on a bicycle Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014  in the lobby of the  Soldotna Nazarene Church where a memorial for Floyd Murphy was held in Soldotna, Alaska. Murphy Thursday after a swimming accident.
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Ben Griess hangs a ribbon upon which he wrote "Gone Home" on a bicycle Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014  in the lobby of the  Soldotna Nazarene Church where a memorial for Floyd Murphy was held in Soldotna, Alaska. Murphy Thursday after a swimming accident.

Food Bank, Boys and Girls Clubs holding nutrition classes

It’s no secret that obesity is an issue with the Centers for Disease Control reporting that more than one-third of U.S. adults as being overweight.… Continue reading

  • Feb 18, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI

Bill making 20 Native languages official advances

JUNEAU — Amid cheers and clapping from spectators in a packed room, the House Community and Regional Affairs Committee advanced a bill symbolically making 20… Continue reading

  • Feb 18, 2014
  • By MIKE COPPOCK

Borough plans Nikiski environmental investigation

After receiving $150,000 last session for an environmental investigation in Nikiski, the Kenai Peninsula Borough is working to make sure its plan for the project… Continue reading

  • Feb 6, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI
Sterling Community Center hosted Valentine's day dinner and dance

Sterling Community Center hosted Valentine’s day dinner and dance

The Sterling Community Center hosted their Valentine’s Day Dinner and Dance on Friday, February 14th. The dinner was prepared by community leader Bob Oakes and… Continue reading

Sterling Community Center hosted Valentine's day dinner and dance
Nikiski team shows horse sense in placing at National 4-H Horse Bowl

Nikiski team shows horse sense in placing at National 4-H Horse Bowl

It takes a lot of work to have horses in Alaska. But, hard work paid off recently at the National 4-H Western Roundup held in… Continue reading

Nikiski team shows horse sense in placing at National 4-H Horse Bowl
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion New Kenai City Planner Francis Krizmanich sits at his desk at city hall last Thursday. Krizmanich moved to Kenai from Aspen, Colorado, where he spent the last 17 years as a planning consultant to the city.

New Kenai city planner welcomes citizen input

The City of Kenai’s new city planner has converted from a tourist to a local.Francis Krizmanich, 58, and his wife Betsy first visited Alaska this… Continue reading

  • Feb 17, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion New Kenai City Planner Francis Krizmanich sits at his desk at city hall last Thursday. Krizmanich moved to Kenai from Aspen, Colorado, where he spent the last 17 years as a planning consultant to the city.
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Connie Moore from Ashford, Washington plays catch with her grandkids Eli and Mia Settlemyer (ages 4 and 2) at the north beach in Kenai Monday. Moore said she didn't expect weather like this in Alaska when she came up to visit. Light snow in the morning turned to partly sunny skies and a high temperature of 25 degrees Monday.
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Connie Moore from Ashford, Washington plays catch with her grandkids Eli and Mia Settlemyer (ages 4 and 2) at the north beach in Kenai Monday. Moore said she didn't expect weather like this in Alaska when she came up to visit. Light snow in the morning turned to partly sunny skies and a high temperature of 25 degrees Monday.

Project draws attention to renewable energy goal

JUNEAU — In 2010, the state adopted an energy policy that, among other things, set a goal of having 50 percent Alaska’s electric generation come… Continue reading

  • Feb 17, 2014
  • By Becky Bohrer
Mark Choate, a former Juneau school board member, addresses protestors on the steps of the state Capitol for a "Save Our Schools" rally to speak out against a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow public money to be used for private and religious schools on Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Public education supporters hold rally at Capitol

JUNEAU (AP) — Opponents of a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow public money to be used for private and religious schools rallied in front… Continue reading

  • Feb 17, 2014
Mark Choate, a former Juneau school board member, addresses protestors on the steps of the state Capitol for a "Save Our Schools" rally to speak out against a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow public money to be used for private and religious schools on Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Parnell defends actions on refinery closure

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Gov. Sean Parnell said critics of his administration’s actions in a North Pole oil refinery’s impending closure don’t see behind-the-scenes work that… Continue reading

  • Feb 17, 2014