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The Homer Police Station as seen Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Cops and Courts

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

News

Brake system issue probable cause in 2019 plane crash

JUNEAU — The braking system on a plane carrying 42 people that overran a runway at an Alaska…

News

Early tally shows Anchorage Assembly member surviving recall

ANCHORAGE (AP) — An Anchorage Assembly member targeted for recall by people upset over COVID-19 mandates had an…

Alaskans for Fair Redistricting proposes a House District 6-C centered around the southern and eastern Kenai Peninsula that includes Homer, Anchor Point, Seldoiva and Seward in one district. It also puts the Russian Old Believer communities of Nikolaevsk, Razdolna, Voznesenka and Kachemak Selo in the same district. (Map courtesy of Alaskans for Fair Redistricting)

Opinion

Point of View: AFFR Plan is the antidote to peninsula gerrymandering

Alaskans for Fair Redistricting proposal would keep Fritz Creek in with Homer area.

Sports

Sports in brief

Hockey

A little girl shows off the rock she found during the Homer Rocks Halloween scavenger hunt at the Islands and Oceans Center on Sunday, Oct. 24. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

Community

Homer’s Best Bets

Barring a last-minute, not forecasted blizzard, Homer kids may enjoy a rare pleasure on Sunday, Halloween: trick or…

Aaron Fleenor, at top, uses a chute to distribute candy on Halloween night, Oct. 31, 2020, in downtown Homer, Alaska. Helping are Amber Fleenor, center, and Shade Fleenor, left. Because of COVID-19 safety concerns, some people created devices like this to give candy away while keeping social distance. Trick or treating was more subdued than usual, but still drew children in costume to neighborhood above Pioneer Avenue. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

News

Happy Haunting!

Local organizations hold Halloween events

The Falcon heavy-lift vessel carrying the jack-up rig Randolph Yost left Kachemak Bay on Monday afternoon, Oct. 25. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

News

Jack-up rig Randolph Yost is moved out of Kachemak Bay on Monday by heavy-lift vessel Falcon.

Oil rig had been in Alaska since 2016, was brought up to drill in upper Cook Inlet.

Homer High School's first quarter Mariners on the Move are Mischelle Wells, Mason Watson, Zachary Stevenson, Karma Brame, Tyson Walker, Kamdyn Doughty, Jonah Martin (not pictured) and Julie Guess (not pictured).

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Mariners on the Move

Mariners on the Move were recognized for scholarship, character on Oct. 19.

Matthew Lincoln Quiner

Obituaries

Matthew Lincoln Quiner

Matthew Lincoln Quiner

Leroy Cabana

Obituaries

Leroy “Roy” Wilbur Cabana

Leroy “Roy” Wilbur Cabana

Shirley Arndt

Obituaries

Shirley Claire (Thoms) Arndt

Shirley Claire (Thoms) Arndt

Laveda Youngblood

Obituaries

Laveda Mae Youngblood

Laveda Mae Youngblood (Rensink)