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The art of the small: Bunnell, HCOA shows explore tiny-format forms

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The art of the small: Bunnell, HCOA shows explore tiny-format forms

In Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” 42 is the answer to life, the universe and…

Family, friends, police keep up search for missing woman

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Family, friends, police keep up search for missing woman

Friends, family and police have kept up the search for Anesha “Duffy” Murnane, the Homer women who went…

Quilters honor those who served on Veterans Day

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Quilters honor those who served on Veterans Day

Veterans Day ceremonies in Homer began with a parade in downtown Homer, continued with a ceremony at the…

Stevens briefs Homer on PFD, oil taxes, other issues

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Stevens briefs Homer on PFD, oil taxes, other issues

On a recent visit to Homer, Sen. Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, spoke to a group of about 15 area…

KBC students explore color in Freeman painting class

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KBC students explore color in Freeman painting class

In traditional college classes, students might quietly slip an assignment onto their professor’s desk — or, in the…

Reward offered in search for missing Homer woman

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Reward offered in search for missing Homer woman

Three weeks after she went missing on Oct. 17, Homer Police remain actively searching for Anesha “Duffy” Murnane.

Ghosts, goblins and ghouls, oh my!

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Ghosts, goblins and ghouls, oh my!

Homer trick-or-treaters got to experience Halloween just like kids Outside when balmy temperatures allowed them to hit the…

Fair Share Campaign opens Homer office to collect signatures

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Fair Share Campaign opens Homer office to collect signatures

A week after the Homer office of Alaska’s Fair Share campaign opened, volunteers have gathered close to 600…

Man, dogs survive bear attack on Diamond Ridge

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Man, dogs survive bear attack on Diamond Ridge

A local man is recovering after surviving a bear attack Monday afternoon that happened when he was out…

Editorial: In times of change, community endures

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Editorial: In times of change, community endures

As Homer eases from fall into winter, we expect transformation: the shortening of daylight hours, falling temperatures, the…

Britni Siekaniec’s painting of a fox is one of the paintings from a student art show opening on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, at the Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided, Asia Freeman)

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First Friday art exhibit openings

As Homer enters the season of coming darkness and more subtle daylight, it’s a time to celebrate the…

The Seafarers Memorial parking lot is mostly empty on Oct. 25, 2019, on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. The city has applied for a conditional use permit to fill in and extend the parking lot to the left in this photo, or toward the beach. The angled parking spaces by the Homer Spit Road also would be removed except in front of the Cannery Row Boardwalk.(Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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City seeks permit for expanded Spit parking lot

In the context of the continual friction between serving the needs of harbor and Homer Spit users while…

Police actively searching for missing Homer woman

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Police actively searching for missing Homer woman

Nearly two weeks after she went missing on Oct. 17, Homer Police remain actively searching for Anesha “Duffy”…