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The KBBI AM 890 station is located on Kachemak Way in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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Peninsula radio reacts to loss of federal funding

Congress last week approved President Trump’s rescission request, zeroing out all federal funding for public broadcasting, effective Oct.…

Dick Hawkins speaks during a community meeting about the proposed Ninilchik Recreation Service Area at the Ninilchik Community Center in Ninilchik, Alaska, on Thursday, July 17, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ninilchik residents consider creation of service area to fund pool

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Aug. 5 will consider an ordinance that would create the service area…

Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, speaks at a town hall meeting in the Moose Pass Sportsman’s Club in Moose Pass, Alaska, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Insurance authorization bill sponsored by Bjorkman, Ruffidge becomes law

The bill requires insurance companies and health care providers to meet new deadlines for authorizing requests for care.

ASEA State President Tom Stroozas, PER, and Exalted Ruler Jill Hockema, PER, accept the award at the Elks Grand Lodge National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri on July 1, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Jill Hockema)

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Homer Elks Lodge wins national recognition

Since its inception in 1959, Homer Elks has given back $2.2 million to the community in various charity…

A map of the Johnson Tract Mine exploration project. Photo courtesy of the Center for Biological Diversity

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Inletkeeper, partners file lawsuit against Cook Inlet gold mine

The Johnson Tract Mine is located on CIRI-owned lands inside Lake Clark National Park.

Homer High School graduates, largely from the class of 1975, celebrate their 50-year reunion on Saturday, July 12, 2025, at the Bishop's Beach pavilion in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Homer High graduates reunite after 50 years

Members of the class of 1975, and others, gathered in Homer over the weekend.

A sockeye salmon is carried from the waters of Cook Inlet on North Kenai Beach in Kenai, Alaska, during the first day of the Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery on Thursday, July 10, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai River dipnet fishery open 24 hours beginning Friday night

Per fish counts available from the department, 471,000 sockeye have been counted so far this year — with…

Attorneys Eric Derleth and Dan Strigle speak to Superior Court Judge Kelly Lawson during the opening arguments of State of Alaska v. Nathan Erfurth at the Kenai Courthouse on Wednesday. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Opening arguments offered in Erfurth trial

The trial is set to continue for around two weeks, into early August.

Evacuees in Seward, Alaska, walk along Adams Street following a tsunami warning on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Tsunami warning canceled following 7.3 earthquake near Sand Point

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Office of Emergency Management confirmed Wednesday evening that the borough was not under threat…

A man fishes in the Kenai River on July 16, 2018, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Peninsula Clarion/file)

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Late-run sockeye beginning to arrive in Russian, Kenai rivers

Northern Kenai fishing report

The Ninilchik River on May 18, 2019, in Ninilchik, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Ninilchik River to remain closed to king salmon fishing

It was an “error in regulation” that would have opened the Ninilchik River to king salmon fishing on…

Members of the SPH Long Term Care staff pause for moment of recognition. (Photo courtesy of South Peninsula Hospital)

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SPH long-term care unit earns national recognition

The award program recognizes organizations that meet progressively rigorous standards of performance to further improve the lives of…

Concert-goers listen to The Discopians at Concert on the Lawn on Saturday, July 12, 2025, at Karen Hornaday Park in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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‘Dancing at the end of the world’

KBBI AM 890 hosted their annual Concert on the Lawn Saturday.