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Borough’s health care costs decreased in 2016

After years of escalation, the Kenai Peninsula Borough saw a decrease in its employee health care costs in…

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2 lawsuits against borough moving through courts

Two entangled lawsuits against the Kenai Peninsula Borough are winding their way through the court system, one toward…

This map, included in a Tuesday, March 7 workgroup presentation to members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, outlines in yellow the boundary of a proposed emergency service area covering the highway corridors of the eastern peninsula, with existing borough emergency service areas shaded in purple. Green dots show volunteer-staffed emergency service stations in Cooper Landing, Moose Pass, and Hope. Red dots are the stations of existing service areas.

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Borough to explore emergency services fix

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly took a first step Tuesday toward securing emergency services in an area that…

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Kenn Carpenter appointed to Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly

Kenn Carpenter, a procurement specialist at Seward’s AVTEC vocational training school, will represent Seward, Cooper Landing, Moose Pass,…

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Assembly approves multi-million hospital expansion

Central Peninsula Hospital is moving forward with plans to update its obstetrics wing and to install the Kenai…

Clarion file photo Louis Cassens, a project engineer with Heartland Technology Partners, works on a leachate thermal evaporation unit Monday March 17, 2014 at the Central Peninsula Landfill in Soldotna. The landfill is commissioning a feasibility study to expaine other uses for the gas that the machine currently evaporates, one of which could be to operate the machine itself.

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Landfill plans for expansion, gas use

A few changes proposed for the Central Peninsula Landfill will not only make it bigger but possibly provide…

Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly listen to testimony Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 in Soldonta on the introduction of an ordinance that would be put to a vote if the borough should ban marijuana cultivation in the rural areas. The assembly set public hearing for the ordinance for Feb. 24 - the day marijuana legalization goes into effect.

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Public speaks on marijuana cultivation ordinance

Kenai Peninsula residents may have a ballot measure on marijuana cultivation to consider if an ordinance introduced at…

File photo contributed by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation The Arness Septage Site in Nikiski, shown here from the air in September 1985. The site was contaminated with thousands of gallons of oil and other industry wastes.

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Nikiski water study underway

In addition to Alaska LNG project managers, and planners from Trans-Foreland Pipeline Company, Nikiski landowners will soon have…

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Tom Wilkinson, director of nurses, talks about surgical recovery rooms while Jake Savely, surgical tech listens during a tour of the Surgery Center of Kenai, LLC., Tuesday July 22, 2014 in Kenai, Alaska.

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Surgery Center of Kenai seeks transfer agreement with CPH

The Surgery Center of Kenai recently opened its doors to patients on Trading Bay Road in Kenai, but…