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Homer rotary supports Anchor Point Food Pantry

The funds will be dedicated to the pantry’s children’s program

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Homer reviews growth scenarios at community work session

The work session was hosted by comprehensive plan rewrite project leaders last Tuesday

State House District 6 candidates Rep. Sarah Vance, Dawson Slaughter and Brent Johnson participate in a candidate forum hosted by the Peninsula Clarion and KBBI 890 AM at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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House District 6 candidates talk finance, schooling, fisheries

Candidates met Tuesday at the Homer Public Library for a forum hosted by the Peninsula Clarion and KBBI…

Parents and supporters of Aurora Borealis Charter School fill the Betty J. Glick Assembly Chambers during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Charter Oversight Committee in Soldotna, Alaska, on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Aurora Borealis Charter School renewal application advanced

They will next be heard during a Nov. 4 work session of the school board

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Planning commission postpones decision on revised Doyon application

The commission held a special meeting on Oct. 16 on the revised Lighthouse Village redevelopment

A banner at Homer City Hall identifies the building as a voting precinct. Early voting runs at city hall from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Nov. 4 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Early voting for Nov. 5 general election open in Kenai, Soldotna and Homer

Voters will cast ballots for U.S. president and U.S. representative, state House and Senate and decide on two…

Alaska and U.S. law enforcement agencies are looking into a case involving a boat that allegedly illegally travelled from Old Crow, Yukon, to Fort Yukon, Alaska, following an overdose in the remote northern Canadian community, according to a press release by the Alaska Department of Public Safety state troopers’ information office.

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Ninilchik woman dies in highway accident

A Ninilchik woman was killed last week in a single-vehicle rollover on the Sterling Highway, according to an…

Alaska State House District 5 candidates Leighton Radner and Rep. Louise Stutes participate in a candidate forum hosted by the Peninsula Clarion and KBBI 890 AM at the Seward Community Library in Seward, Alaska, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Stutes, Radner talk spending, housing, child care at Seward forum

The candidate forum was moderated by the Peninsula Clarion and KBBI 890 AM

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Parents’ meeting to address youth technology use

Homer Police Department’s Lt. Ryan Browning will this month facilitate a meeting for parents to address issues of…

The former Homer News office building, located at 3482 Landings Street, is photographed on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Homer News moves house

The paper’s new office is located on the Sterling Highway

The Economic Development Advisory Commission discusses the prospects of a citywide business licensing program in Homer, Alaska at their last regular meeting on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in the Cowles Council Chambers at Homer City Hall. Screenshot.

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City makes no move on business license

Comments from the EDC recommend not creating a city business license

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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City council asks governor for pink salmon fishery disaster designation

The Homer City Council at their Monday, Oct. 14 meeting, passed Resolution 24-108 requesting Gov. Mike Dunleavy designate…

ADFG assistant area sport fish manager with ADFG explains some of the features of the underwater camera used to measure and track fish at the Anchor River weir on Saturday Oct. 19, 2024 in Anchor Point, Alaska. Emilie Springer/ Homer News.

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Anchor Point weir extended to collect additional info on steelhead trout

Homer’s ADFG office provided tour of weir system to regional Trout Unlimited chapter members