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Child care availability list can be found online

Best Beginnings Homer has collaborated with the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center to provide an online…

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House passes Chenault’s in-state gas line bill

JUNEAU — The Alaska House has passed legislation aimed at advancing an in-state natural gas pipeline project. Monday…

Workers with Chumley’s General Contractors lay and weld pipe near Mile 166 Sterling Highway several miles north of Diamond Ridge Road as part of construction of a trunk line to bring gas from Anchor Point to Homer and Kachemak City.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Gas project contracts being awarded

Answers for who is doing what in the project to get natural gas from Anchor Point to Homer…

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Kenai Peninsula Borough wins budget award

The Kenai Peninsula Borough has received the “Distinguished Budget Presentation Award” for its budget from the Government Finance…

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Harbingers of spring on the Homer Spit

Sonny and Nancy Smith put the finishing touches on Glacier Drive-In in preparation for Friday’s opening for the…

A 27-foot Bay Weld boat sits outside the Bay Welding shop on East End Road.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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100 boats later, Bay Weld celebrates

From a 20-foot skiff to its newest and biggest boat, the 42-foot P/V Churchill, Bay Welding has been…

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Uncertainty remains on what oil tax change really means

By TIM BRADNER Morris News Service – Alaska The oil tax bill now moving in the Legislature puts…

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Resolution on genetically modified salmon passes

JUNEAU (AP) — The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution calling upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…

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Three business seminars offered in Homer in April

  The Alaska Small Business Development Center will offer three seminars in Homer in April: • A “Profit…

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Rising from the ashes

  Workers with Needham Construction lift roof joists up on top of a building being rebuilt at the…

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$355-million plan for trucking LNG to Interior moves ahead in Legislature

Whether liquefied natural gas will be trucked from the North Slope to the Interior within the next couple…

The Endeavour-Spirit of Independence jack-up rig is scheduled to leave the Deep Water Dock on Tuesday to make room for replacement of fenders on the dock. That work starts next week.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Buccaneer files counterclaim in suit

In a counterclaim responding to a $6.5 million lawsuit filed by Archer Drilling, Buccaneer Energy Ltd. charges that…

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Buccaneer says it can produce 10 million cubic feet of gas daily

Buccaneer Energy says it expects to produce 9 to 10 million cubic feet of natural gas daily from…