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Homer softball gets 1st wins of season

The Homer softball team went 0-3 last Thursday at the first day of the Emerald Isle Invitational in…

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Kodiak softball takes 2 from Homer

The visiting Homer softball team dropped a pair of Northern Lights Conference contests Wednesday in Kodiak.

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Homer soccer sweeps Nikiski

The Homer and Nikiski soccer teams opened up their seasons with the host Mariners notching a Peninsula Conference…

A brown bear on the refuge captured on a trail camera, an example that den entrance and emergence varies and you can expect to see bears at any time of the year. (Image by Colin Canterbury/FWS)

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Refuge Notebook: Sharing the landscape as bears wake up this spring

Snow and extreme cold were early this year. The conditions made for fantastic cross-country skiing, and the early…

Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion
The west fork of the Moose River in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, March 23, 2022.

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Out of the Office: Precipice

On Oct. 31, 2021, I ran down to Headquarters Lake in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge hoping to…

Soldotna's Kaytlin McAnelly won the Alaska Airlines Pentathlon on Saturday, April 9, 2022, at the Big C Relays at The Dome in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo provided)

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Soldotna trio leads area Saturday at Big C Relays

Soldotna High School’s Kaytlin McAnelly, Dylan Dahlgren and Jordan Strausbaugh led the Kenai Peninsula on the second day…

Andrew Marley, the 2021 Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament winner, at left, holds his prize winning 25.62-pound white king salmon on Saturday, April 17, on the Homer Spit in Homer. Helping him are his father, Jay Marley, center, and older brother Weston Marley, right. The family team included Erica Marley, not shown, all fishing on the Fly Dough. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Winter King postponed to Sunday

The 28th annual Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament has been postponed to Sunday.

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McDonough, Marden win Sea to Ski Triathlon

Seamus McDonough and Katie Marden won the Sea to Ski Triathlon on Saturday in Homer.

People wait in line for Mochileros Guatemalan street food in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 18, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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The pitch for Anchorage

My first time on the Kenai Peninsula was a solo trip in the late fall of 2020. When…

Some heart shaped rocks appear as bands of quartz. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Out of the Office: Finding heart rocks

Like love, heart rocks appear when you’re not looking for them.

Filming the introduction to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s biology team's use of science and technology at work at the refuge headquarters in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS)

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Seeing STEM: Science career ambassador in a national spotlight

What do you want to be when you grow up …

Homer's Carter Tennison takes a shot against Barrow's Uata Tuifua during the Class 3A boys basketball fourth-place semifinals at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Barrow knocks Homer out of state basketball

The Homer boys basketball squad dropped their Class 3A state fourth-place semifinal game 55-46 against Barrow at the…

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Nanwalek loses opener at state

The Nanwalek boys fell to Scammon Bay 66-48 on Wednesday in the first round of the Class 1A…