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This Monday, June 17, 2019, file photo shows 5-mg pills of Oxycodone. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

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State of Alaska accepts $21.5 million opioid settlement

These settlements come less than a year after a settlement agreement with opioid manufacturers that awarded the state…

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Razor clams are seen in this undated photo.

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East Cook Inlet sport and personal use razor clam fisheries closed for 2023

An emergency order has been issued each year from 2015 to 2022 closing the fisheries

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A City of Kenai grader moves snow from a roadway on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska.

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To close or not to close? Winter storms keep school district admin up at night

The district’s most recent snow day was on Dec. 12

The Homer High School Swing Choir performs at the Homer Senior Center on Dec. 9, 2022 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Kyle Schneider)

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Holiday cheer

Swing Choir performs ‘Candlelight, Carols and Dessert’ on Thursday

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Pete Kineen, a neighbor of the proposed Beachcomber LLC gravel pit, stands on his deck and points to where the pit could be, on May 2, 2019, in Anchor Point, Alaska.

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Judge upholds denial of Anchor Point gravel pit

Decision affirms decision of KPB Planning Commission to set standards in gravel pit applications.

This map shows the location of a magnitude 4.5 earthquake that hit about 100 miles southeast of Homer, Alaska, near Nuka Island in the Gulf of Alaska. The map also shows the intensity of the quake as reported by observers. (Map by U.S. Geological Survey)

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M. 4.5 quake hits peninsula

No damage, injury was reported.

Laura McBride, Food Pantry Coordinator, stands in front of the Community Fridge located at the Homer United Methodist Church on Thursday, Dec. 1 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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Community Fridge provides free food

This community fridge encourages anyone to donate what they would eat and take what they need.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Regular Municipal Election informational pamphlet for the Oct. 4, 2022, election is pictured. The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is considering an ordinance that would end distribution of hard copies of the pamphlet to borough box holders. (Peninsula Clarion file)

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Assembly mulls nixing hard copy voter pamphlets

Mailing a borough to every box holder in the Kenai Peninsula Borough costs about $30,000 each regular election

Mountain View Elementary School teacher Callie Giordano demonstrates with students “word building” with practices from the University of Florida Literacy Institute during a board of education meeting on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Mountain View students demo literacy curriculum at school board meeting

Principal Karl Kircher said the Alaska Reads Act is “foremost” on the minds of the school community

Aaron Cooke A home built in 2016 at Mertarvik, Alaska, where villagers are moving from Newtok.

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Villages chosen for relocation grants singled out for climate-change threats — and progress

By Yereth Rosen

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In Anchorage House race, losing Republican candidate sues Democratic winner, challenging her residency

A Republican who lost her race for the state House in west Anchorage is suing the Democratic victor,…

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: Proposals sought for salmon habitat studies

An opportunity to receive funding for salmon habitat studies on the Kenai Peninsula is becoming available, with the…

Homer News Editor Michael Armstrong, left, and Senior Reporter Emilie Springer, right, pose for a photo on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, at the paper offices in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Charlie Menke/Homer News)

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Homer News editor Armstrong will retire

Longtime Homer News editor and reporter Michael Armstrong will retire from the paper next week. Armstrong’s last paper…