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The top three winners in Saturday’s Homer Winter King Tournament celebrate their catches. From left are Jon Bartelds of Kenai, third place; Eric Kjelland of Eagle River, second place; and Raymond B. Tepp of Kenai, first place.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Kenai angler catches 1st place in king tourney

Fishing off an area commonly known as the bluffs, Kenai angler Raymond B. Tepp and his two buddies…

Don’t overthink it, just garden

Outdoors & Recreation

Don’t overthink it, just garden

Be prepared to shift your expectations. Anything can happen in March: single digits, a ton of snow, wind.…

Bill would decrease regs on smaller boats

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Bill would decrease regs on smaller boats

A bill is currently making its way through Congress that could save a world of hassle and possible…

Participants in last weekend’s Big Fat Bike Fest enjoy a ride and camaraderie at Bishop’s Beach. Funds raised from the festival will go into an educational bike safety campaign.-Photo by Aryn Young

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Sloppy weather proves mettle of fat bikes

Cold temperatures and wet sand didn’t stop the cyclists at Bishop’s Beach last Friday as they celebrated 2014’s…

Gardening season begins in earnest

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Gardening season begins in earnest

February. The days are certainly noticeably longer. The weather certainly noticeably strange. Winter started three weeks ago. Does…

Federal fishing act getting attention

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Federal fishing act getting attention

Commercial and recreational fishermen in the United States are hoping that an amendment to the Magnuson-Stevens Act will…

A fat bike rests against pilings on the Homer Spit.-Photo by Bjørn Olson

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Fatbike Homer: Big Fat Bike Festival is Feb. 21-23

For more than 100 years people have been doing amazing things with bicycles, in Alaska. In 1898 a…

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Personal-use fisheries go largely unchanged

After nearly a full day of board deliberations on 25 proposed regulatory changes, the Cook Inlet’s personal-use fishery…

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Some fishing for solutions

ANCHORAGE — Change is hard. The evolution of commercial setnetting in the Cook Inlet is no different. As…

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Time to save kings is now

I have been fishing the Kenai River for 20 years and over the past years I have noticed…

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Conservation should come first

I have been a Kenai Peninsula resident for more than 10 years and have sport  fished in Alaska…

Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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A bird to brighten up the winter

A gray-capped rosy finch feeds at a bird feeder on Diamond Ridge last Saturday. The blue behind it…

Todd Hoppe, left, a board member of the North Pacific Fisheries Association, speaks in support of a resoultion urging the Board of Fish to reject proposals that would restrict the drift fleet. Matt Alward, right, owner of Bulletproof Nets, waits his turn to speak.                               -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Council supports Homer drift fleet

The Homer City Council waded into statewide fisheries politics at its Monday night meeting, but it got a…