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Officials: Wear life jackets, use caution when recreating on water
A group of seven people were rescued Saturday from Mile 80 of the Kenai River
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New federal grant will fund borough beetle-kill mitigation
Assembly members on Tuesday voted to accept more than $70,000 for the effort
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School board starts conversation about 4-day school week
KPBSD Superintendent Clayton Holland made clear to board members that the purpose of the discussion was not to…
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Amid misconduct allegations, new district policies promise diligence
KPBSD says it is confident the Title IX policies implemented will prevent harm against students by staff members
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Assembly OKs ZipMart demolition
The building, located on Swanson River Road, started to collapse earlier this year
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Assembly backs expanded use of e-bikes in Chugach
The nonbinding resolution calls for class I and II electronic bicycles to be allowed on the forest’s nonmotorized…
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Assembly strengthens borough protections against malfeasance
Legislation overhauls the sections of borough code that discuss employee protection, surety bonds, liability for conduct and indemnification
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School district moves ahead with bond projects
$65.5 million in bonds will fund deferred maintenance projects at 10 KPBSD schools
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Dunleavy budget vetoes include peninsula projects, bonus funding for schools
Funding for Kenai Peninsula projects and a slash to the extra money approved by state lawmakers for K-12…
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Druce returns as head of teachers union
The special election followed the firing of former president Nathan Erfurth, who was arrested in May on charges…
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Alaska LNG Project gets mixed response at Kenai meeting
The proposed 800-mile pipeline would move gas from the North Slope to Nikiski for shipment overseas
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Soldotna plans to scale back field house project scope after high cost estimate
The project cost estimate in June 2022 was about $18.3 million
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Borough looks to demolish collapsed ZipMart building
It’s been more than 20 years since the Sterling business, a convenience store and gas station, was in…
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Troopers investigating Soldotna shooting death
An investigation into the incident by the Alaska Bureau of Investigation’s Soldotna Major Crimes Unit is active and…
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New reading curriculum to cover Alaska history, culture instead of religion
The change comes after some teachers and community members questioned whether some of the proposed topics, specifically Judaism,…
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Voting underway to determine next head of teachers union
The election follows the firing of former president Nathan Erfurth, who was arrested in May on charges of…
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Peninsula residents protest trans girls in sports at state school board meeting
The Alaska Board of Education last week met at the George A. Navarre Kenai Peninsula Borough Administration Building…
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Kenai adopts budget, staff recruitment strategies
The city expects there to be a general fund surplus of about $436,000 in fiscal year 2025
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Kenai cuts ties with out-of-state marketing firm
Council members expressed skepticism about the firm’s performance