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    Articles by Ben Boettger
    HEA scheduled to raise  rates beginning Feb. 1
    HEA scheduled to raise rates beginning Feb. 1
    By Ben Boettger • January 21, 2016 10:08 am

    Rates paid by Homer Electric Association users will rise by 3.25 percent beginning Feb. 1. The Alaska Regulatory Commission, which…

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    Kenai may get unlikely million to upgrade its wastewater plant
    Kenai may get unlikely million to upgrade its...
    By Ben Boettger • January 7, 2016 10:32 am

    Despite the scanty state spending expected in 2016, this year’s state capital budget may provide funding for long-deferred upgrades to…

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    HEA prices dropped at beginning of 2016
    HEA prices dropped at beginning of 2016
    By Ben Boettger • January 7, 2016 10:27 am

    Homer Electric Association decreased its rates starting Jan. 1, while an unresolved proposal that may raise them remains suspended until…

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    Kenai considers marijuana setbacks
    Kenai considers marijuana setbacks
    By Ben Boettger • December 24, 2015 8:55 am

    KENAI — Setbacks for commercial marijuana establishments may become more tightly regulated in Kenai than they are at the state…

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    This map from an Alaska Department of Transportation website shows the preferred route of the 5.5-mile Cooper Landing bypass.
    Cooper Landing bypass path picked
    By Ben Boettger • December 17, 2015 10:48 am

    After considering several possible paths for a new highway section around Cooper Landing, the Alaska Department of Transportation named its…

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    In this Dec. 11, 2012, file photo, Charlie Martizens, Chriss Luttrell and Noe Marquez, all of Hillburn Builders Inc., work on the building that holds CINGSA’s compressors. The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has ruled that the company can sell 2 billion cubic feet of the gas it discovered in its undergound storage facility. The profit will be divided between CINGSA and the four utility companies that use it for storage.-Morris News Service - Alaska file photo
    CINGSA to sell newly discovered gas
    By Ben Boettger • December 10, 2015 11:16 am

    On Friday, the Regulatory Commission of Alaska ruled that Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska can sell 2 billion cubic…

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    Peninsula hospitals measure impact of reimbursement rate freeze for Medicaid
    Peninsula hospitals measure impact of reimbursement rate freeze...
    By Ben Boettger • July 23, 2015 12:09 pm

    With Alaska Medicaid cut by $51.9 million in this year’s state budget, Kenai Peninsula Medicaid providers are seeing the first…

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    Cook Inlet oil companies big users of state tax credit reimbursements
    Cook Inlet oil companies big users of state...
    By Ben Boettger • June 25, 2015 10:53 am

    Presenters at a June 17 joint meeting of the House and Senate Resource Committees identified Cook Inlet companies as heavy…

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    Speakers address climate change, subsistence
    Speakers address climate change, subsistence
    By Ben Boettger • June 18, 2015 10:38 am

    Three Alaska Native subsistence users addressed an audience of national wildlife policy advisers last week about the risks of climate…

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    Permit opens up markets for Alaska LNG
    Permit opens up markets for Alaska LNG
    By Ben Boettger • June 4, 2015 10:12 am

    The pipeline proposed by the Alaska LNG project would bring North Slope natural gas to liquefaction and export facilities being…

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    Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee seeks members; deadline is June 4
    Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee seeks members; deadline...
    By Ben Boettger • May 28, 2015 4:28 pm

    The proposed Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee is another step closer to reality. After writing and receiving comments on a…

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    Corps of Engineers, Kenai to share cost of bluff erosion study
    Corps of Engineers, Kenai to share cost of...
    By Ben Boettger • May 14, 2015 11:31 am

    After two days of meetings in Kenai City Hall between Kenai administrators and regional and national officials from the Army…

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    A display at the new Kenai Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center shows the Kenai Peninsula’s anadromous streams in red lights and the borders of the Kenai Wildlife Refuge in green. The new visitor center opened Friday in Soldotna.-Ben Boettger, Morris News Service - Alaska
    Kenai refuge’s new visitor center opens
    By Ben Boettger • May 6, 2015 3:28 pm

    SOLDOTNA — Kenai National Wildlife Refuge staff said that their new visitor center, which began construction in 2013 and opened…

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