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Pet of the Week: Jazzy

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Pet of the Week: Jazzy

Pet of the Week Jazzy is an 8-week-old kitten and is here with her siblings, and yes they…

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Cops and Courts

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

Foma Reutov, a freshman, ties up his shoes before a Cougars football practice Friday, Sept. 1, 2017 at McNeil Canyon Elementary in Fritz Creek, Alaska. The team, usually made up of a mix of students from the Russian Old Believer Villages Voznesenka, Razdolna and Kachemak-Selo, is in its fifth year as a varsity, 11-man program. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Russian Old Believer football program forges ahead into fifth season

The Head of the Bay Cougars have five seasons and just about as many wins under their belt.…

Best Bets

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Best Bets

For those keeping track, the signs that summer might be ending continue. Kids back in school? Check? Most…

Dar Williams’ “What I Found in a Thousand Towns” (Basic Books, September 2017, $27)

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‘Thousand Towns’ looks at what some cities do right

On her visits to Alaska over the past 20 years, like a lot of visitors to Homer, singer-songwriter…

Zaya McKinley Robinson

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Zaya McKinley Robinson

Zaya McKinley Robinson was born at 11:41 p.m. Sept. 8, 2017, at Homer Birth and Wellness Center to…

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Cops and Courts

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

Best Bets

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Best Bets

Even though the Betster toils in the word mines here at the Homer News and has a modest…

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Arts Briefs

Lord debuts new novel Homer writer Nancy Lord launches her new novel, “pH,” at 6 p.m. Friday at…

Homer Theatre owner Jamie Sutton, wearing special glasses, introduces Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” the first digital 3-D film shown at the 55-year-old theater for the 2011 Homer Documentary Film Festival. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Homer Doc Fest returns with films that seek to enlighten

Next week, Homer film buffs will escape reality for an hour or two during the weeklong 14th annual…

Pinks run in places never seen before in bay

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Pinks run in places never seen before in bay

All around Kachemak Bay the past weeks, people have reported large runs of pink salmon in places never…

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Town Crier

The LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer) Teen Support and Discussion Group meets at 4 p.m. every…

Aili Martha Baker

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Aili Martha Baker

Aili Martha Baker was born at home, in water, at 10:24 a.m. on Aug. 27, 2017, to Hannah…