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Homer Volunteer Fire Department on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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911 texting soon available

The service will allow residents to contact emergency services via traditional cellphone texting services.

Commercial fishing and other boats are moored in the Homer Harbor in this file photo. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Seawatch: Sitka fishermen look to the future

‘The only thing that man controls is what we take’

Mounts Iliamna and Redoubt are seen at sunset on Feb. 22, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Hilcorp makes lone bid for federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was offering leases for 193 blocks totaling some 958,000 acres

The Kasilof River can be seen in June 2019. (Clarion file)

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State to update public on Kasilof boat retrieval

Alaska State Parks has acquired two lots on Williamson Drive in Kasilof for the project

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Alaska Association of Realtors President Dale Bagely presents a regional real estate update during the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District’s 2022 Industry Outlook Forum on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Kenai.

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KPEDD forum to offer overview of peninsula economic projects

The all-day forum will feature panels on topics including mariculture, oil and gas, food sustainability, tourism and broadband

Summer 2022 interns and volunteers learn about Beluga Slough at low tide. (Photo by Jessica Shepherd)

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Kachemak Bay Watershed Collaborative begin user group meetings

Recruiting stakeholders from communities and management organizations all across the region

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East End Road arrest briefly closes road, backs up traffic

A Homer resident was stopped near Mile 4 of East End Road while driving a truck reported stolen,…

Matt Clarke and Homer Harbor crew assess vessel sunk vessel in Homer Harbor on Dec. 27, 2022. (Photo provided by Harbor crew)

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Homer Harbor crew and team salvage submersed sailboat

Wet winter conditions created heavy ice on decks

Kyle Darbonne, principal of Fireweed Academy, and Eric Waltenbaugh, principal of West Homer Elementary, stand in the shared Kenai Peninsula Borough school building on Tuesday Jan. 3, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Emilie Springer)

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The new semester offers more opportunities for students

Two Homer schools housed in the same building are looking for new ways to collaborate.

COVID-19. (Image courtesy CDC)

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COVID-19: Hospitalizations down, borough cases spike

Early Tuesday, the state reported that a data issue had delayed the update of hospitalization info since Dec.…

Mount Redoubt can be seen acoss Cook Inlet from North Kenai Beach on Thursday, July 2, 2022. (Peninsula Clarion file)

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State offering of offshore Cook Inlet leases receives single bid

Hilcorp Alaska stands to claim 22,783 acres for a total of $359,483.23

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Ane Mane in Homer holds one of her dogs this fall.

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Two die in fatal collision near Clam Gulch

Homer loses local friend, Naturopathic Doctor and Licensed Actupunturist

People hold signs at the “Women’s March: Bans Off Our Bodies” protest on Saturday, July 9 at WKFL Park . (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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2022: The year in review

The pandemic didn’t end in 2022, but where it loomed large in January, by the end of the…