Site Logo

News

Industry groups discuss incentives for limiting bycatch

Pollock fisheries groups made presentations last month to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council Advisory Group about possible…

Kachemak Bay Birders Sea Duck survey group head to Sadie Cove, March 2023. Photo by Joey Hausler/courtesy)

News

Meet your neighbor: Kachemak Bay Birders

Local group birds for fun and to help ensure bird and habitat protection

The Alaska Capitol is photographed in January 2023. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire file)

News

School funding tops district’s priority list

“Parental rights” legislation and defined benefit plans were also among concerns discussed

Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion
Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, left, addresses constituents during a town hall event on Saturday, April 15, 2023 in Kenai, Alaska.

News

Bjorkman lumber bill heads to governor’s desk

Senate Bill 87 aims to make locally milled lumber more widely available for the construction of housing in…

The logo for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is displayed inside the George A. Navarre Borough Admin Building on Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

News

School board briefed on remote learning opportunities

By Ashlyn O’Hara

Little Fireweed students rehearse for A Sea of Strings concert with conductor Abimael Melendez at the Little Fireweed Yurt on Wednesday, April 29.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News

News

Kids show off string skills in youth orchestra performance

‘A Rising Tide of Music’ featured more than 100 strings on the stage

Homer High School. (Homer News file photo)

News

School announcements

School announcements

Upper Cook Inlet Exclusive Economic Zone can be seen on this map provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Image via fisheries.noaa.gov)

News

NOAA to hear public comment about Cook Inlet salmon management

The hearing will be held online as a webinar May 18

News

Family-friendly health fair Saturday

Annual Safe and Healthy Kids fair offers events, activities and fun for kids of all ages

Fireweed Kindergarten, first and second grade students in the Makerspace afterschool club sponsored by Homer Council on the Arts make flowers to decorate for the May Day celebration.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News

News

Fireweed Academy to celebrate return of May Day festival

Fireweed Academy will host a community celebration on Saturday, May 6 from 1-4 p.m. in the yard at…

Derotha Ferraro from the fishing vessel Big Game poses with the king salmon she caught in the Anchor Point King Salmon Calcutta on Sunday, May 12, 2019, in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Bill Scott)

News

Anchor Point King Salmon Tournament kicks off this weekend

The 28th annual Anchor Point King Salmon Calcutta and Tournament will be held this Friday and Saturday.

An attendee of the invitational gathering on Saturday, April 29, 2023 at the Norman Lowell Art Gallery in Anchor Point, Alaska views a display of photographs and information on Lowell’s life and career. Photo by Delcenia Cosman

News

Norman Lowell gallery open for the season

At the top of a winding, tree-lined gravel road above the Sterling Highway lies a hidden community treasure.

News

Homer man indicted by feds on wildlife charges

If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison and $20,000 fine on each count