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Alaska: Still expensive place to live

Recent figures dissected by economists with the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development show increases in the…

From left, Pamela Hansen, Barbara Caswell, Nancy Egbert and Sue Carter hold up the word “home”as Kenai Mayor Pat Porter speaks during the opening ceremony of Central Peninsula Hospital’s Radiation Oncology Center on July 10 in Soldotna.-Photo by Rashah McChesney, Morris News Service - Alaska

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New radiation oncology center opens its doors

With its opening, life for Kenai Peninsula residents living with cancer has changed for the better. The Peninsula…

Buccaneer Energy CEO Curtis Benson, seen during a June visit to the Alaska Journal of Commerce office in Anchorage, initially thought making a move to Alaska was “nuts,” but now the Houston-based company is arguably now the most aggressive explorer in

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Buccaneer bets big on Cook Inlet strategy

Alaska wasn’t on Curtis Burton’s radar screen when he helped start Buccaneer Energy in 2007, but it quickly…

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Wells Fargo names new Homer store manager; chamber mixer planned for Thursday at store

Wells Fargo will host the next Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center mixer. It will be from…

Farmers’ Market

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Farmers’ Market

I just spent a week in a class where the food was provided. Three square meals a day.…

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Council seeks to rescind mine study comments

JUNEAU — The Iliamna Village Council has asked to rescind an analysis it submitted to the U.S. Environmental…

Simyra Taback, left, of Hallo Bay Bear Camp, shares some Spit sunshine July 11 with Wanderlust photographer Simon Chubb and the travel magazine’s co-founder and editor in chief Lyn Hughes.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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UK travel magazine co-founder visits Hallo Bay, Homer

In 2012, Simyra Taback of Homer and Hallo Bay Bear Camp found herself in an elite group of…

Business Briefs

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Business Briefs

State seeks to advance ANWR plan dismissed by Interior Secretary JUNEAU — The state of Alaska is taking…

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TOTE’s conversion to LNG on track

Almost a year after announcing it would convert two of its vessels to liquefied natural gas, officials with…

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CEA president: ‘Road to energy security runs through Alaska’

The Consumer Energy Alliance is working with private industry and state officials to raise awareness about the need…

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski visits with those attending the Homer Chamber of Commerce luncheon July 3.  Earlier in the week, Murkowski called on developers of the Pebble project to release a mine plan sooner rather than later.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Murkowski: Pebble should provide more specifics

JUNEAU — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski called on the companies seeking to develop a massive copper and gold…

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Buccaneer board splits over Cook Inlet

Three new directors were named to the board of Australian independent Buccaneer Energy in a special July 2…

Farmers’ Market

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Farmers’ Market

“Look at those beets! This is so exciting!” I can’t help but smile when I hear someone getting…