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Kenai to assist borough with leachate management
Leachate is the word for liquid that touches trash at a landfill
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Kenai starts early budget talks
The City of Kenai on Wednesday kicked off its budget process for the upcoming fiscal year with a…
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Assembly calls on state to increase K-12 funding
School districts across Alaska lobbied lawmakers heavily last session for a meaningful increase to the base student allocation
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Mayors’ coalition to assess energy needs as Cook Inlet natural gas shortage looms
The group includes peninsula borough and city mayors
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Kenai again debates future of remote participation in city meetings
The discussion comes two months after a hacker disrupted a council meeting
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Soldotna adopts 4% bed tax
The tax applies to all hotels, motels, inns, lodges and short-term rentals, such as Airbnbs and Vrbos
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Satanic Temple gets last word as assembly ends open invocation policy
Effective Jan. 1, assembly invocations will be delivered exclusively by volunteer chaplains who serve the borough’s fire and…
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Assembly mulls borough logo rebrand
The borough’s current logo is “dated, difficult to scale, and too detailed to be effective,” according to legislation…
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School funding, accountability dominate school board work session with lawmakers
Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, Rep. Ben Carpenter and Rep. Justin Ruffridge joined the board for a work session in…
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Kenai accepting bids on bluff stabilization project
The announcement means that contractors can start submitting their proposals for how they’d complete the work and how…
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DOT identifies roads included in brine reduction plan
The department said its goal is to reduce brine use overall in the region by 40%
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Borough spent almost $78k responding to flood events during disaster declaration
Most of the funds were spend in the northwest area of Kalifornsky Beach Road
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Borough gets $243k for emergency management work
The program is offered by the Federal Emergency Management Area in order to help states and other emergency…
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Soldotna to repair failed wastewater pipe
The pipe to be repaired discharges treated effluent into the Kenai River
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Local field for 2024 state elections takes shape
Kenai Peninsula voters next November will cast ballots in one Alaska State Senate race and in four Alaska…
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Kenai OKs discount for veterans buying city land
Eligible veterans include those who are at least 18 years old and have lived in Alaska for at…
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Seward council considers electricity rate hike
A resolution considered at Monday’s council meeting would increase rates by $0.06 per kWh for all customers
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Borough to include cities in tourism promotion materials
Borough code doesn’t allow the borough to promote city-specific tourism without entering into a partnership with that city
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Emergency services, roads top borough capital priority list
The 72-page plan outlines more than 30 projects