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    Snow blankets Homer City Hall on April 10, 2025, in Homer, Alaska. (Homer News file photo)
    Council adopts small budget overages procedure
    By Delcenia Cosman • October 3, 2025 1:30 am

    Resolution 25-083 was passed during the last Homer City Council meeting on Sept. 22.

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    Signage outside the Capitol Hill visitors center notifies the public of its closure due to the government shutdown in Washington, on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. The first government shutdown in nearly six years left federal agencies in flux and many of their employees in a state of confusion on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, as they received last-minute and conflicting instructions from managers. (Alex Kent/The New York Times)
    Alaska braces for federal government shutdown
    By Mari Kanagy • October 2, 2025 5:00 pm

    The shutdown will take its toll on government land, services and workers

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    Contributed/UAF 
Xochitl Muñoz (left) is a master’s student in paleontology at UAF; Willa Johnson (right) is pursuing a master’s degree in marine biology in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
    Alaska graduate students awarded national research fellowship for...
    By News Staff Peninsula • October 2, 2025 10:30 am

    Willa Johnson and Xochitl Muñoz are recipients of the 2025-2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships

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    Alaska Supreme Court allows personal watercraft in Kachemak Bay, reversing lower court
    Alaska Supreme Court allows personal watercraft in Kachemak...
    By James Brooks Alaska Beacon • October 2, 2025 5:30 am

    The ruling has significant implications for all state agencies’ ability to impose and repeal regulations, attorneys say.

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    Delcenia Cosman/Homer News
Two fairgoers battle it out with foam swords opposite the sparring arena at Ye Olde Harvest Festival at Karen Hornaday Park on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024<ins>,</ins><ins> in Homer, </ins><ins>Alaska</ins>.
Two fairgoers battle it out with foam swords opposite the sparring arena at Ye Olde Harvest Festival at Karen Hornaday Park on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024<ins>,</ins><ins> in Homer, </ins><ins>Alaska</ins>. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    Renaissance fair returns this weekend
    By Delcenia Cosman • October 2, 2025 1:30 am

    The annual festival will be held at Karen Hornaday Park on Saturday and Sunday.

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    Patti Truesdell, candidate for the Kalifornsky seat on the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education, participates in a forum at the Soldotna Public Library in Soldotna, Alaska, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Kalifornsky school board candidates discuss funding, curriculum and...
    By Jacob Dye • October 2, 2025 1:30 am

    Patti Truesdell, Donna Anderson and Shelby Oden are all vying for the seat.

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    Homer City Council candidates answer questions during a forum hosted by the Homer News, Peninsula Clarion and KBBI AM 890 on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    City council candidates talk development, challenges at election...
    By Delcenia Cosman • October 1, 2025 5:30 pm

    The forum was hosted by the Homer News and KBBI AM 890 last Wednesday, Sept. 24.

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    Kenai Peninsula Borough Special Projects and Constituent Relations coordinator Dana Cannava (center) talks through proposals for community projects during a meeting held Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, at the Anchor Point Community and Senior Center in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    Anchor Point selects capital project priorities
    By Delcenia Cosman • October 1, 2025 5:30 pm

    Kenai Peninsula Borough representatives hosted a community meeting Saturday to discuss funding for local projects.

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    A photo provided by the National Park Service shows 32 Chunk, a bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, Sept. 15, 2025. Fat Bear Week, a bracket-style competition to pick the bear best suited for winter at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, was won by Chunk. (The National Park Service/T Carmack via The New York Times) — NO SALES; EDITORIAL USE ONLY —
    Meet this year’s Fat Bear contest winner
    October 1, 2025 1:30 pm

    After a weeklong battle to the finish, this year’s Fat Bear Week victor has been crowned. Congratulations to 32 Chunk,…

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    Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion 
A sign along a trail to Exit Glacier marks the spot to where the toe of the glacier reached in 2010, photographed on June 22, 2018.
    2 attacked by bear near Seward
    By Jacob Dye • October 1, 2025 1:30 am

    The trail was closed by the National Park Service.

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    Ash-Lee Waddell and Gayle Claus, candidates for the District 9 seat of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education, answer questions during an election forum hosted by the Peninsula Clarion and KBBI AM 890 on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    South peninsula school board candidates talk funding, future...
    By Delcenia Cosman • September 23, 2025 5:30 pm

    Ash-Lee Waddell and Gayle Claus discussed their takes on multiple issues facing the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District in an election forum last week.

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    (from left to right) Elias Garvey, John Mink, Storm Hansen and Jason Davis answer questions during the Homer City Council candidate forum hosted by the Homer Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, at Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    Chamber hosts city council forum
    By Delcenia Cosman • September 23, 2025 1:30 am

    Candidates for one-year and three-year terms on the Homer City Council answered questions in a forum hosted last week by the Homer Chamber of Commerce.

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    The Missing Man Table, in honor of soldiers missing in action and prisoners of war, is placed in a corner of VFW Post 10221 in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    VFW honors missing soldiers
    By Delcenia Cosman • September 23, 2025 1:30 am

    Veterans and community members gathered in remembrance of prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action.

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