The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on Monday released maps showing areas open to woodcutting by permit beginning on Nov. 19, 2025.

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Kenai National Wildlife Refuge to allow permitted firewood collection

Permitted individuals may gather up to five cords of wood beginning Nov. 19.

Nikolaevsk School is photographed on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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School board approves initial Nikolaevsk charter application

The application will next be forwarded to the State Board of Education and Early Development for review.

Community members line up for hot soup and bread during the Homer Community Food Pantry's annual Empty Bowl fundraiser on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, at the Homer United Methodist Church in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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‘Good food for a good cause’

The Homer Community Food Pantry raised $14,000 during their Empty Bowl fundraiser, held Nov. 7.

Kids and parents craft holiday ornaments during at the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center during their annual Christmas tree lighting celebration on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Chamber announces holiday event schedule

It’s beginning to look a lot like the holiday season, and the Homer Chamber of Commerce is advancing…

The industrial area of Nikiski, featuring a refinery and currently mothballed LNG and fertilizer plants, was selected by the producer-led consortium of the Alaska LNG Project before the state took over in 2017. (Photo/File/AJOC)
The industrial area of Nikiski, featuring a refinery and currently mothballed LNG and fertilizer plants, was selected by the producer-led consortium of the Alaska LNG Project before the state took over in 2017. (File photo)

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Harvest Midstream announces Kenai LNG terminal acquisition

The company is now seeking engagement from global LNG suppliers and potential offtake customers, a Nov. 11 press…

Goldenview Middle School student Luciana Liu's winning poster entry for the 2024 Alaska Radon Poster Contest. Photo provided by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources

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Students invited to compete in statewide radon poster contest

The deadline to submit poster entries is Dec. 19.

The aurora borealis is seen from Mendenhall Lake in Juneau on Nov. 12, 2025. A series of solar flares caused unusually bright displays of the northern lights across Alaska Tuesday and Wednesday nights. (Chloe Anderson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Out of the Office: Aurora’s performance was worth the wait

A series of solar flares caused an unusually bright display of the northern lights Wednesday night.

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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Council accepts grant for library security grille

The Rasmuson Foundation awarded the Homer Public Library $19,000 in grant funding for the installation of a new…

The Homer Public Library. File photo

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Library updates privacy policy to address electronic communications

A resolution amending the Homer Public Library’s privacy policy was passed Monday during the regular Homer City Council…

Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning an oil and gas lease sale in federal territory of the inlet. It is set to be the first of at six Cook Inlet lease sales that Congress has mandated by held between now and 2032. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

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Trump administration sets terms for upcoming oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet

The ‘Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale,’ scheduled for March, would follow a series of…

The KBBI Public Radio office and studio is on Kachemak Way, as seen in this photo taken July 2, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Kenai Peninsula public radio receives grant funding

The Alaska Community Foundation fund recently awarded $2.9 million in grants to public media stations statewide, including in…

Grant Aviation’s Cessna 208B EX Grand Caravan is pictured at the Kenai Municipal Airport in Kenai, Alaska, on Monday, March 4, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Federal mandate orders Grant Aviation to cut flights

Grant Aviation will cut 10% of its flights between Kenai and Anchorage by Nov. 14.

Members of the American Legion Post 16, VFW Post 10221, Civil Air Patrol and Homer Emblem Club #350, as well as local veterans or current military members, march in a parade through Homer, Alaska, in honor of Veterans Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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‘To serve the nation’s cause’

A parade was held in Homer on Tuesday in honor of Veterans Day.