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Homer Harbor is photographed on May 20.

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Homer harbor expansion delays expected in 2024

The Homer Harbor Expansion project will face delays again with the start of 2024.

A sign indicates the turn for Jim’s Landing on Skilak Lake Road on Sunday, June 13, 2021, near Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Refuge opens for firewood collection Friday

Cutting is limited to trees already dead and down within the designated areas

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Homer election results certified

Lord, Venuti maintain city council seats

The Kenai Municipal Airport is seen on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ravn to end service in Kenai

Ravn Alaska and the Kenai Municipal Airport confirmed Friday that the airline will discontinue its Kenai service starting…

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Boating safety training course for women to take place Saturday

“Women at the Helm” is a one-day tutorial offered by AMSEA

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Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board Member Debbie Cary speaks during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Soldotna.

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School board president receives award for meritorious service

Debbie Cary, of Ninilchik, is the Alaska Superintendent Association’s 2024 recipient of the Don MacKinnon Excellence in Education…

Soldotna Elementary School Principal Dr. Austin Stevenson walks amid natural gas pipes anchored to the outside of school on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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High costs stall work on borough school district bond projects

School district, borough consider tweaks to school maintenance bond

Mount Redoubt can be seen across Cook Inlet from North Kenai Beach on Thursday, July 2, 2022. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Alaska not included in feds’ proposed 5-year oil and gas program

The plan includes a historically low number of proposed sales

Rachel Tussey, election official with the City of Homer, helps a voter with registration on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (Finn Heimbold/ Homer News)

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‘Every vote matters’

Voters take to the polls during Tuesday municipal election

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Lower Cook Inlet fisheries proposals focus on king harvest regs

Proposals submitted to the Alaska Board of Fisheries for review and consideration in the upcoming winter meetings were…

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Advisory council on oil impacts meets in Homer

The council aims to be a citizen voice for those affected by Prince William Sound’s oil industry

Homer community members talk with Matt Steffy, parks and trails planner with the City of Homer, about the trails and sidewalk component of the draft transportation plan on Sept. 26.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News

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City hosts final public meeting on draft transportation plan

The final public meeting discussing the city’s draft transporation plan took place last month.

Bear 32 Chunk stands in the waters of the Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. The winner of a Wednesday matchup between Bear 806 Jr. and Bear 428 will meet Chunk in Fat Bear Week competition on Friday. (Photo courtesy Felicia Jimenez/National Park Service)

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Survival of the fattest

Paunchy ursine competitors go head-to-head in annual Fat Bear Week