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Let’s put U.S. back on right course

 Just a few more days and we can start to get this nation back on the course to…

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Here’s what road respect looks like

I travel by bike often. As I live on Tamara Street, my route frequently includes East End Road.…

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Pancreatic cancer’s visibility raised

It is unacceptable that there is a cancer for which the relative five-year survival rate is still in…

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Homer sewer rates unfair

Homer sewer rates discriminate against Kachemak City residents, especially those who travel extensively. We are longtime residents of…

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Shame on borough voters

Sure I love animals and care about their welfare. I hereby authorize the Kenai Peninsula Borough to institute…

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ASMI seeks entries in annual photo contest

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, or ASMI, once again invites photographers from Alaska and beyond to enter their…

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Google crowns Homer eCity for second year

For the second year a row, Google has named Homer the eCity for the state of Alaska. The…

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Kenai to host board work session

JUNEAU — After receiving an influx of written public comments asking it to hold an upcoming meeting in…

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Board of Fisheries once again spurns Central Kenai Peninsula

By the time the Alaska Board of Fisheries holds its next meeting on Upper Cook Inlet fisheries, it…

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State saves fast with new insurance administrator

Health care spending leveled off for the state of Alaska in the last fiscal year, bucking a trend…

Owner Tim Wisniewski, left, and his son, Grant, have opened Homer Funeral Home on the corner of Main Street and the Sterling Highway. Their other southern peninsula location on Diamond Ridge also remains open.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Homer Funeral Home opens new location

Having begun serving the Homer area in 1976, Peninsula Funeral Chapels opened Homer Funeral Home on Diamond Ridge…

Program aims to get young people into crab fishery

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Program aims to get young people into crab fishery

Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers, an organization that represents about 70 percent of the fleet, has launched a program…

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450 inlet fishermen receive aid

More than 1,000 Alaska fishermen will share in $7.5 million worth of payments to mitigate the 2012 fisheries…