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Holiday Recipes: Directions for a perfect holiday prime rib dinner

Our family became dear friends with a butcher many years ago and we have enjoyed dining upon roasted…

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HEA rates to drop

Homer Electric Association members will see rates drop about a penny with the quarterly Cost of Power Adjustment,…

The high school students at Nikolaevsk School pose with Nouredine Mama, an exchange student from Cameroon in Homer for the year.-Photo by Annie Rosenthal

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Exchange students learn new holiday traditions

Tonight, Nouredine Mama will celebrate Christmas for the first time.  The 16-year-old exchange student from Cameroon is Muslim,…

It’s time to build trust about cannabis

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It’s time to build trust about cannabis

Alas, state regulators have wrapped up the marijuana regulation-making process and the regulations are now heading to the…

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Borough’s marijuana task force postpones regulations decision

Comments and discussion stretched late into the night at the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s first Marijuana Task Force meeting…

It could have been worse

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It could have been worse

Sustainable Wares owner Karen West holds a garden gnome that had been outside the building and missed being…

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Pollock fleet sees its quota increased

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council raised pollock quota for 2016, but only by half the requested amount,…

Steve Noble, right, the vice president of the engineering consulting firm DOWL, explains the details of the Sterling Highway improvement project to the public at an open house Dec. 9 at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center in Soldotna.  -Photo by Elizabeth Earl, Morris News Service - Alaska

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Sterling Highway project aims to reduce collisions between wildlife, humans

The Sterling Highway through the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge may soon be a little more wildlife-friendly. As a…

It’s expensive for fishermen to participate in BOF meets

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It’s expensive for fishermen to participate in BOF meets

Editors note:  This story has been edited to delete comments from the United Cook Inlet Drift Association president…

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Court Report

Court records show the following actions taken in Homer District Court through Dec. 14: Judgments Colter E. Wolfe,…

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Trooper Report

Dec. 8 Alaska State Troopers at 8:09 a.m. received a report of a suspicious person siphoning fuel in…

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Homer Police Report

Dec. 8 A caller at 6:23 a.m. reported an unattended skiff in the harbor. A caller at 10:21…

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Kachemak Emergency Services

Dec. 7-13 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to two medical calls and one fire call.