Elections
Council candidates speak
Roads, the recall, taxes, business and budgets dominated discussion at two Homer City Council candidate forums held the…
News
Homer Prop 1 would allow using HART for roads, trails maintenance
On Oct. 3, city of Homer voters not only select two new council members, they will consider a…
News
Borough voters face several props
Kenai Peninsula Borough voters face a full slate of candidates and issues. All borough residents will select one…
News
Ethics complaint dismissed against council members; Heartbeat of Homer violated confidentiality
Affirming what had been suspected happened when a Heartbeat of Homer spokesperson broke confidentiality, an ethics complaint against…
Community
‘pH’ novel takes new tack to novel: fiction about science
Science fiction as predictive literature has its limits, but the writer Frederik Pohl noted one value to the…
News
Construction starts on Boat House
Construction started on Sept. 6 with a groundbreaking ceremony for the The Boat House Maritime Pavillion on the…
Community
CoastWalk cleans up beaches and monitors ecology
Students from McNeil Canyon Elementary School walking the Homer Spit beaches last Friday have become the latest generation…
News
Japanese naval ships visit Homer
Two Japanese Self Defense Force ships stopped briefly in Homer on their way to a goodwill visit in…
News
Council members waive confidentiality on ethics complaint
The first rule in filing an ethics complaint with the city of Homer is that you don’t talk…
Elections
KPB Mayoral candidates debate
In a Kenai Peninsula Borough mayoral candidate forum sponsored by the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center,…
News
Police investigating minor shooting incident
Homer Police are investigating a shooting incident in which a man suffered a minor gunshot wound. According to…
News
Firefighters knock down small wildfire
A small wildland fire in the hills above Shirley Court appears to have been started by some sort…
Elections
Q&A with this year’s Homer City Council candidates
The Homer News submitted these questions to all the candidates actively running for two 3-year seats on the…