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The Cowles Council Chambers are seen in Homer City Hall on Pioneer Avenue in April 2025 in Homer, Alaska. (Homer News file photo)

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Mayor honors college adult education program

A proclamation recognizing the Kenai Peninsula College program’s 40 years of service was issued at the last city…

Josiah Kelly, right, appears for a superior court arraignment at the Kenai Courthouse in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Anchor Point man sentenced for shootings at Homer clinic, recovery center

Josiah Kelly accepted a plea deal in June for charges related to three shootings last fall that targeted…

Homer Elks Lodge #2127 Exalted Ruler Jill Hockema (center) and members of the Homer Elks Lodge donate $3,500, using grant funds received, to West Homer Elementary School in Homer, Alaska, on Sept. 22, 2025, to provide fourth-grade students the opportunity to participate in the annual Outdoor Education Field Trip scheduled for May 2026. Photo provided by Jill Hockema

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Homer Elks lodge gives back to community

Lodge #2127 recently completed a series of Elks National Foundation Community Investments Program Grants, disbursing $11,000 to community…

Snow blankets Homer City Hall on April 10, 2025, in Homer, Alaska. (Homer News file photo)

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Council adopts small budget overages procedure

Resolution 25-083 was passed during the last Homer City Council meeting on Sept. 22.

Signage outside the Capitol Hill visitors center notifies the public of its closure due to the government shutdown in Washington, on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. The first government shutdown in nearly six years left federal agencies in flux and many of their employees in a state of confusion on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, as they received last-minute and conflicting instructions from managers. (Alex Kent/The New York Times)

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Alaska braces for federal government shutdown

The shutdown will take its toll on government land, services and workers

Contributed/UAF Xochitl Muñoz (left) is a master’s student in paleontology at UAF; Willa Johnson (right) is pursuing a master’s degree in marine biology in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

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Alaska graduate students awarded national research fellowship for work in sciences

Willa Johnson and Xochitl Muñoz are recipients of the 2025-2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships

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Alaska Supreme Court allows personal watercraft in Kachemak Bay, reversing lower court

The ruling has significant implications for all state agencies’ ability to impose and repeal regulations, attorneys say.

Delcenia Cosman/Homer News Two fairgoers battle it out with foam swords opposite the sparring arena at Ye Olde Harvest Festival at Karen Hornaday Park on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024<ins>,</ins><ins> in Homer, </ins><ins>Alaska</ins>. Two fairgoers battle it out with foam swords opposite the sparring arena at Ye Olde Harvest Festival at Karen Hornaday Park on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024<ins>,</ins><ins> in Homer, </ins><ins>Alaska</ins>. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Renaissance fair returns this weekend

The annual festival will be held at Karen Hornaday Park on Saturday and Sunday.

Patti Truesdell, candidate for the Kalifornsky seat on the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education, participates in a forum at the Soldotna Public Library in Soldotna, Alaska, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kalifornsky school board candidates discuss funding, curriculum and school closings at election forum

Patti Truesdell, Donna Anderson and Shelby Oden are all vying for the seat.

Homer City Council candidates answer questions during a forum hosted by the Homer News, Peninsula Clarion and KBBI AM 890 on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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City council candidates talk development, challenges at election forum

The forum was hosted by the Homer News and KBBI AM 890 last Wednesday, Sept. 24.

Kenai Peninsula Borough Special Projects and Constituent Relations coordinator Dana Cannava (center) talks through proposals for community projects during a meeting held Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, at the Anchor Point Community and Senior Center in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Anchor Point selects capital project priorities

Kenai Peninsula Borough representatives hosted a community meeting Saturday to discuss funding for local projects.

A photo provided by the National Park Service shows 32 Chunk, a bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, Sept. 15, 2025. Fat Bear Week, a bracket-style competition to pick the bear best suited for winter at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, was won by Chunk. (The National Park Service/T Carmack via The New York Times) — NO SALES; EDITORIAL USE ONLY —

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Meet this year’s Fat Bear contest winner

After a weeklong battle to the finish, this year’s Fat Bear Week victor has been crowned. Congratulations to…

Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion A sign along a trail to Exit Glacier marks the spot to where the toe of the glacier reached in 2010, photographed on June 22, 2018.

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2 attacked by bear near Seward

The trail was closed by the National Park Service.