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    Homer City Council member Caroline Venuti compares a thicker plastic shopping bag, left, with a thinner, single-use plastic shopping bag, right, during an ordinance on a proposal to ban single-use plastic bags in Homer. The council approved an ordinance putting the question to the voters at the October 2019 city election. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Council puts bag ban question to voters
    By Michael Armstrong • October 24, 2018 6:36 pm

    A proposition on whether or not to prohibit retailers from giving out single-use plastic bags will once again be on…

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    Former state Senate Mike Dunleavy, left, Gov. Bill Walker, center, and former U.S. Senator Mark Begich shake hands after a debate at a Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Centennial Hall on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
    Alaska Gov. Bill Walker abandons election
    By James Brooks • October 24, 2018 6:23 pm

    Incumbent independent throws support behind Democratic candidate Mark Begich.

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    Dr. Reid Brewer holds a Pacific giant octopus while doing field research in 2009. Brewer was named Campus Director of Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, on Oct. 19. (Photo provided)
    Brewer named new KBC director
    By Michael Armstrong • October 24, 2018 1:00 am

    After a national search and three finalists, Dr. Reid Brewer, 46, of Sitka, has been selected and approved to become…

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    Daisy Lee Anderson Bitter accepts the 2018 Land at Heart Award from the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 during the Open Spaces and Wild Places Gala at Wasabi’s Bistro in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Conservation advocate Daisy Lee Andersen Bitter wins Land...
    By Megan Pacer • October 17, 2018 9:22 pm

    Editor’s note: The story has been updated to correct the spelling in the headline of Daisy Lee Andersen Bitter’s maiden…

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    A BUMPS bus waits for passengers in the Walmart parking lot Monday in Kenai. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
    Community gathers to increase public transportation opportunities
    By Victoria Petersen • October 17, 2018 8:21 pm

    The Kenai Peninsula is nearly the size of West Virginia with small towns and unincorporated communities sprinkled throughout. Without a…

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    Following the money in District 31 representative race
    Following the money in District 31 representative race
    By Michael Armstrong • October 17, 2018 8:18 pm

    Thirty-day reports released earlier in October by District 31 Representative candidates Paul Seaton and Sarah Vance show where each candidate…

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    Sarah Vance. (Photo by Hannah Vance)
    Q & A with Sarah Vance
    By Michael Armstrong • October 17, 2018 8:00 pm

    This week, the Homer News starts its coverage of the District 31 House of Representatives election between incumbent and nonpartisan…

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    Paul Seaton, nonpartisan candidate for the Democratic Party nomination, District 31 Representative. (Homer News file photo)
    Q&A with Paul Seaton
    By Megan Pacer • October 17, 2018 4:19 pm

    Ahead of the November general election, the Homer News conducted interviews with incumbent Alaska House of Representatives District 31 Rep….

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    The Kenai Peninsula Borough building, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Soldotna, AK. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
    State of emergency due to rain, flooding in...
    By Victoria Petersen • October 17, 2018 4:18 pm

    Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce declared a state of emergency Tuesday due to flooding events in the borough, a…

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    Storm tides have almost totally buried a Ford F-150 pickup truck on the beach south of Diamond Creek in this photo taken on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, near Homer, Alaska. The truck was abandoned on the beach in October 2011 and had then been on its tires. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Ford F-150: good beach truck, needs work, you...
    By Michael Armstrong • October 17, 2018 11:38 am

    Storms, pounding surf and high tides over the past seven years have flattened and buried a red Ford F-150 truck…

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    Anchorage woman found dead in RV after trooper standoff in Ninilchik
    Anchorage woman found dead in RV after trooper...
    By Megan Pacer • October 14, 2018 4:14 am

    Troopers found an Anchorage woman dead on her property in Ninilchik after an hours-long standoff Saturday.

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    Homer City Clerk Melissa Jacobsen, right, watches as Election Canvass Board members Maryann Lyda, left, and Alice Krivitsky, center, feed ballots through an AccuVote machine during the Oct. 5, 2018, meeting of the canvass board in Homer, Alaska. The board counted the absentee and other ballots uncounted on Tuesday’s election. The overall result did not change, with Ken Caster winning the election of Homer Mayor and Donna Aderhold and Heath Smith winning re-election to the Homer City Council. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    No change in unofficial city, borough election
    By Michael Armstrong • October 10, 2018 8:20 pm

    After counting absentee, questioned and special needs votes, the Homer Election Canvass Board and the Kenai Peninsula Borough found no…

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    Women veterans visiting from Fairbanks joined their hosts, Homer Emblem Club 350, for breakfast at Duncan House. From left: Kathy VanSandt-Barger, Homer; Jessica McCargish, Fairbanks; Sierra Nelson, Fairbanks; Kaley Maben, Fairbanks; Cynthia Nelson, Fairbanks; Deidra Neeley, Fairbanks; Sherry Parish, Homer; Monserrat Guzman, Fairbanks; Peggy Parsons, Homer; Fran VanSandt, Homer; Shari Daugherty, Homer. (Photo by McKibben Jackinsky)
    Homer welcomes visiting women vets
    By McKibben Jackinsky • October 10, 2018 6:11 pm

    Editor’s note: The article has been updated to make it clear that Sierra Nelson is a Purple Heart recipient. She…

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