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Pet of the Week: Valentine

Valentine, a 7-year-old female, is being very patient as she waits for her furever home. She is a…

A still from "Ascend: Reframing Disability in the Outdoors," one of the films showing in the Mountainfilm on Tour.

Sports

Ski Season Kick-Off

Homer Community Recreation is sponsoring this “Cross Over Event” as they kick off the upcoming winter season of…

"Raven Berry" by Susan Watkins is one of the pieces in the 5x7 show opening Friday at the Homer Council on the Arts. (Photo provided)

Community

November exhibits warm up town with the fire of creativity

First Friday for November shows that as the season grows colder, Homer’s art scene continues to warm with…

The hull of a wrecked boat lies on the Homer Spit beach on Friday afternoon, Oct. 21, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Best Bets

A lone boat washed ashore, torn asunder. It looks pitiful and decrepit, with a stern completely annihilated and…

This public domain images shows former House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. Boggs was traveling in an airplane with Alaska Rep. Nick Begich in 1972 that went missing and has never been found.

Opinion

Opinion: On 50th anniversary of disappearance, time to search for missing Boggs-Begich plane

Hale Boggs was my grandfather.

Michael O'Meara's cartoon for Nov. 3, 2022.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Toxic threat minimized

This photo shows the University of Alaska Southeast  Juneau campus on a rainy day. UA administration and faculty have reached a tentative end to 14 months of negotiations.  (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire File)

News

UA administration and faculty union reach tentative deal

While 14-month negotiation has ended, unfair labor practice complaints process still ongoing.

The northern lights appear over Shishmaref, Alaska, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. Rising sea levels, flooding, increased erosion and loss of protective sea ice and land have led residents of this island community to vote twice to relocate. But more than six years after the last vote, Shishmaref remains in the same place because the relocation is too costly. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

News

Climate migration: Alaska village resists despite threats

Climate change is partially to blame for the rising seas, flooding, erosion and loss of protective ice and…

Sierra Rae Parker.

Obituaries

Sierra Rae Parker

Sierra Rae Parker: Woman with a Big Heart

Gary Stevens (Photo provided)

News

Senate District C:Gary Lee Stevens

1. Suppose you are governor and you have a majority in the State Senate and House that would…

Heath Smith (Photo provided)

News

Senate District C:Heath Smith

1. Suppose you are governor and you have a majority in the State Senate and House that would…

Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News file 
A princess and her knight in shining armor trick-or-treat on Bayview Avenue on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021.

News

Homer’s Halloween Spooktacular

This Halloween as you wander about, be on the lookout for superheroes, witches, ghosts, goblins, princesses, monsters and…

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Cops and Courts

Information about fire, police and troopers is taken from public records consisting of logbooks and press releases.