Soldotna apartment fire extinguished

Central Emergency Services extinguished a kitchen fire within minutes after the call came from a Soldotna apartment complex Monday evening. CES responded to a 911… Continue reading

  • Apr 1, 2014

Overnight break in at Peninsula Center Mall

Three businesses inside the Peninsula Center Mall were burglarized overnight in Soldotna. Soldotna police received a call from a mall employee who reported the break… Continue reading

  • Apr 1, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER

Soldotna apartment fire extinguished

Central Emergency Services extinguished a kitchen fire within minutes after the call came from a Soldotna apartment complex Monday evening. CES responded to a 911… Continue reading

  • Apr 1, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER

Soldotna waitress charged with defrauding receipts

A Soldotna woman admitted to police that she altered around 100 gift and credit card transactions totaling $677 in tips in a five-month span at… Continue reading

  • Mar 31, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER

Prosecutors to open Coast Guard shooting trial

ANCHORAGE — The attorney for the man charged with killing two co-workers at a Kodiak Island Coast Guard communications facility offered a medical explanation Tuesday… Continue reading

  • Apr 1, 2014
  • By Dan Joling

Housing market heating up

In his 20 years in real estate, Redoubt Realty owner Dale Bagley has never seen a more active winter. Bagley, the President of the Kenai… Continue reading

  • Mar 31, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion At its monthly free swim, the Central Peninsula Change Club saw the Skyview High School Pool nearly at capacity at one point on Monday, Linda Tannehill with the Kenai Peninsula Cooperative Extension Service office said. The club hosts a free swim night from 3-6 p.m. the last Monday of every month. Each month has a different sponsor. Sweeney's Clothing of Soldotna sponsored Monday night's swim.
Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion At its monthly free swim, the Central Peninsula Change Club saw the Skyview High School Pool nearly at capacity at one point on Monday, Linda Tannehill with the Kenai Peninsula Cooperative Extension Service office said. The club hosts a free swim night from 3-6 p.m. the last Monday of every month. Each month has a different sponsor. Sweeney's Clothing of Soldotna sponsored Monday night's swim.

Uncertainty surrounds LNG gasline advisory board’s role

Municipal leaders throughout the state say they are pleased with the development of the Municipal Advisory Gas Project Review Board, but participation concerns remain.The concerns… Continue reading

  • Mar 31, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI

Senate panel considers dual track tenure system

JUNEAU — The Senate Education Committee on Monday took testimony on a bill that would increase the number of years a teacher would have to… Continue reading

  • Mar 31, 2014
  • By MIKE COPPOCK

Chenault plans to propose AGDC amendment

JUNEAU — House Speaker Mike Chenault on Monday said he plans to propose allowing out-of-state residents to serve on the board of directors of a… Continue reading

  • Mar 31, 2014
  • By Becky Bohrer

Legislative Information Office hearing schedule April 1-4

Tuesday 8:00 a.m.The House Community & Regional Affairs Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 379 Oil & Gas Property Tax. Testimony will… Continue reading

  • Mar 31, 2014

Around the District

School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley… Continue reading

Prosecutors lay out case in Coast Guard homicides

ANCHORAGE — Federal prosecutors will try to prove that a respected Coast Guard civilian technician on Kodiak Island meticulously planned an alibi, sneaked onto a… Continue reading

  • Mar 30, 2014
  • By Dan Joling
Kenai interested in Soldotna's beautification project

Kenai interested in Soldotna’s beautification project

In an effort to beautify the City of Kenai, the city planner is borrowing a concept from its neighboring city of Soldotna with the potential… Continue reading

  • Mar 30, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Kenai interested in Soldotna's beautification project
Chris Carson, left, and Lion El Aton of Firefight Films demonstrate their DJI Phantom drone quadcopter at Mendenhall Lake in Juneau, Alaska, on Thursday, March 20, 2014. They have been using the unit to film the glacier and an ice cave this winter. (AP Photo/Juneau Empire, Michael Penn)

Ventures sees Alaska from difference perspective

JUNEAU — Juneau residents Christopher Carson and Lion El Aton want to show off the beauty of Southeast Alaska, and they’re doing it in a… Continue reading

  • Mar 30, 2014
  • By MATT WOOLBRIGHT
Chris Carson, left, and Lion El Aton of Firefight Films demonstrate their DJI Phantom drone quadcopter at Mendenhall Lake in Juneau, Alaska, on Thursday, March 20, 2014. They have been using the unit to film the glacier and an ice cave this winter. (AP Photo/Juneau Empire, Michael Penn)

Union opposes legislative action on minimum wage

JUNEAU (AP) — The head of the state’s largest labor union said his organization would oppose any move by lawmakers to raise the minimum wage… Continue reading

  • Mar 30, 2014
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 30 AND THEREAFTER - In this March 11, 2014 photo, artist Marina Lee, left, of Milwaukee, works on a sculpture with Governor French Academy third and fourth-grade students for the Art on the Square's fourth annual High School Sculpture in the City Program in Belleville, Ill. The students are from left: Macee Rivers, 10; Vincent Garavalia, 9, and Skylar Hunter, 8. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Tim Vizer)

Sculptor works with Belleville students

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Governor French Academy students with wet, sticky modeling compound in their hands went to work forming trees on two different sculptures under… Continue reading

  • Mar 30, 2014
  • By JAMIE FORSYTHE
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 30 AND THEREAFTER - In this March 11, 2014 photo, artist Marina Lee, left, of Milwaukee, works on a sculpture with Governor French Academy third and fourth-grade students for the Art on the Square's fourth annual High School Sculpture in the City Program in Belleville, Ill. The students are from left: Macee Rivers, 10; Vincent Garavalia, 9, and Skylar Hunter, 8. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Tim Vizer)
In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, Reilly Fahrenholz takes photographs of evidence at a mock crime scene for Adams Central's Forensic Science course in Hasting, Neb., where students will try to solve a murder mystery. (AP Photo/The Hastings Tribune, Amy Roh)

Class uses scientific principles to solve ‘crime’

HASTINGS, Neb. — Among the first group to arrive at the crime scene, senior Reilly Fahrenholz carefully photographed each piece of evidence.It was the first… Continue reading

  • Mar 30, 2014
  • By WILL VRASPIR
In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, Reilly Fahrenholz takes photographs of evidence at a mock crime scene for Adams Central's Forensic Science course in Hasting, Neb., where students will try to solve a murder mystery. (AP Photo/The Hastings Tribune, Amy Roh)

Juneau’s oldest legislator reflects on a life of public service

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Bob Lynn is spry for a man of 81. He easily — and daily during the session — scales the five… Continue reading

  • Mar 29, 2014
  • By MIKE COPPOCK

Idaho company indicted in Anchorage for contamination on the North Slope

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Anchorage grand jury has indicted an Idaho company accused of falsifying records related to the cleanup of a contaminated pad… Continue reading

  • Mar 29, 2014
  • By Associated Press