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Kenai council cancels next meeting

The Kenai City Council voted at their Wednesday meeting to cancel their November 18 meeting because it coincides…

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Kenai releases dipnet report

From July 10 to July 31, fee shacks that collected parking and camping fees from dipnetters entering the…

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Kenai council implements, debates changes

The Kenai City Council experienced changes both of personnel and procedure at its meeting on Wednesday. A successful…

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Kenai chicken ordinance fails again

Kenai city council members Terry Bookey and Ryan Marquis introduced an ordinance allowing up to twelve hens to…

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Molloy, Boyle top ballots in Kenai City Council race

With the absentee ballots remaining to be counted, it appears that incumbent Bob Molloy will retain his seat…

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Three candidates vie for two Kenai council seats

Polls close Oct. 6 in the Kenai City Council election, in which two council members will be elected…

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Kenai purchases land for South Beach access road

Editor’s note: The house in an image that previously appeared with this story was mistakenly identified as the…

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Kenai postpones land purchase for South Beach Access Road

Editor’s note: The following story was inadvertently cut in Sunday’s Clarion. It is reprinted here in its entirety.…

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Kenai City Council candidate James Glendening talks to a reporter after a candidate meet and greet on Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015 at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center in Kenai, Alaska.

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Kenai Council candidates answer questions at forum

The personal-use fishery, Kenai’s mill rate and purchasing policy, and the improbable unification of Kenai and Soldotna were…

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Army Corps of Engineers and Kenai agree to share cost of bluff erosion study

After two days of meetings in Kenai City Hall between Kenai administrators and regional and national officials from…

The tide and wind waves eat at the bottom of Kenai Bluff during high tide Sunday evening below Toyon Way in Kenai.

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Kenai bluff erosion cost-share agreement in progress

A cost-share agreement between Kenai and the Army Corps of Engineers for a study relating to Kenai’s bluff…

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Kenai council prepares for personal use marijuana

When possession and private use of marijuana becomes legal, Kenai authorities hope to be prepared for the change.…

Kenai makes small steps on bluff erosion project

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Kenai makes small steps on bluff erosion project

Which moves faster: the geological process of bluff erosion, or the bureaucratic process of project funding? According to…

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion A row of propertys along Peninsula Avenue Thursday September 4, 2014 in Kenai, Alaska. The city recently bought properties near a crumbling bluff along the Kenai River where erosion mitiation efforts are set to begin.

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Kenai acquires five parcels in Old Town

The City of Kenai has acquired five parcels of foreclosed properties on Peninsula Avenue with the intent of…

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Aron Endries, of Endries Construction, guides a motor grader in front of an overturned crane on Beaver Loop Road Wednesday July 30, 2014 in Soldotna, Alaska.  The crane overturned as employees were attempting to move segment of an old culvert being replaced along the road.

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Crane overturned at construction site for Beaver Loop Road culvert project

Employees of Soldotna-based Endries Company overturned a crane Wednesday as it attempted to remove a portion of a…

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…

Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion An ATV trail and utility boxes line the side of Beaver Loop Road near the Dolchok Lane intersection. The road that connects Bridge Access Road and the Kenai Spur Highway is slated for improvments along with a pedestrian pathway. Local residents shared feedback at a open house Thursday for the project which is still in the preliminary design process.

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Beaver Loop residents pack road improvement meeting

Kenai resident Tom Potton would like to see safer conditions on Beaver Loop Road for his children’s sake.…

Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion Ron Hyde, CEO of PRL Logistics, Inc. stands with wife Suzy Hyde in front of a map that was found during the company's renovation of a Kenai Landing cannery. Hyde expects to begin operating out of the new Kenai branch in about a month.

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Logistics company renovates 100-year-old Kenai cannery

Months of renovations and $2 million later, PRL Logistics Inc. CEO Ron Hyde said he expects to be…