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First National Vice President and Homer Branch Manager Erik Niebuhr, and Claudia Haines, KBFPC CEO.

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Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic receives support for building repairs

Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic was awarded a $10,000 grant from First National Bank Alaska to support KBFPC’s…

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Homer community members hold signs on Pioneer Avenue and Svedlund Street in Homer in support of improving senior safety and housing conditions at the Homer Senior Citizens Center on Jan. 15, 2024.

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Community members protest conditions at senior center

Local residents express continued concern about Homer Senior Citizen center

The Peninsula Clarion printing press is photographed on Monday, April 18, 2023, in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Black Press Media announces move to new ownership

Carpenter Media Group operates leading community news publications in the southern United States, including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North…

From left, Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly members Bill Elam, Brent Johnson, Tyson Cox and Brent Hibbert attend an assembly meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly calls on state to increase K-12 funding

School districts across Alaska lobbied lawmakers heavily last session for a meaningful increase to the base student allocation

Sarah Vance (Photo provided)

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Vance hosts local discussion ahead of upcoming legislative session

Rep. Sarah Vance on Jan. 4 hosted a public discussion and question and answer session ahead of the…

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The Homer planning commission discusses the proposed development by Doyon, Limited at the former Lighthouse Village site during a special meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 3<ins>, 2024</ins> in the Cowles Council Chambers at Homer City Hall<ins> in Homer, Alaska</ins>.

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Planning Commission deliberates Doyon proposed development

Decisions on the proposed development at the former Lighthouse Village remain forthcoming.

Airplane wreckage sits in brush on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, near Anchor Point, Alaska. (Photo via National Transportation Safety Board)

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NTSB releases preliminary report on Anchor Point plane crash

The Dec. 8 crash killed 2

Mount Redoubt volcano can be seen across Cook Inlet from the shores of South Kenai Beach, in Kenai, Alaska, on April 10, 2022. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources in January reported demand for Cook Inlet gas could outpace supply as early as 2027 without additional development in the basin’s active fields. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Mayors’ coalition to assess energy needs as Cook Inlet natural gas shortage looms

The group includes peninsula borough and city mayors

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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City posts schedule for public feedback on short-term rental regs

Meetings will be held up to the Feb. 26 city council public hearing on ordinance

A vehicle is surrounded by avalanche debris along the Seward Highway on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023 near Cooper Landing, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities)

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Christmas Eve avalanche severs travel along Seward Highway

The road was closed for several hours

A full audience listens to presentations and public testimony on the proposed development at the site of the former Lighthouse Village on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 in the Homer City Hall Cowles Council Chambers in Homer, Alaska. Screenshot.

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Lighthouse Village development public hearing to continue next week

A special Planning Commission meeting is scheduled for Jan. 3

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2023: The year in review

While 2023 saw the closest thing to a “return to normalcy” since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic,…

Audience members listen to Iris Fontana, of the Satanic Temple, deliver an invocation during a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. Fontana was the last person to deliver an assembly invocation before a new borough policy, which says only borough volunteer chaplains may deliver the invocation, takes effect. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Satanic Temple gets last word as assembly ends open invocation policy

Effective Jan. 1, assembly invocations will be delivered exclusively by volunteer chaplains who serve the borough’s fire and…