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What does it mean to have a healthy local food system? When you think about food security, do…

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Keep Cannabis Legal group leads pack for campaign spending

With less than a month to go until the regular election, candidates and groups are racking up campaign…

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Western states try to tame homegrown marijuana

DENVER (AP) — Long before tourists started converging here to sample freshly legalized marijuana in the form of…

The 200-megawatt Southcentral Power Project owned by Chugach Electric Association and Anchorage Municipal Light and Power is seen under construction in 2012. Leaders from Chugach, ML&P and the four other Railbelt electric utilities are moving toward forming a transco, a jointly-owned company that can pool resources and infrastructure to maximize economies of scale and efficiencies. (Photo/Courtesy/Chugach Electric Association)

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Railbelt utilities make progress to pool resources

Leaders of Alaska’s largest electric utilities hope to have a green light from state regulators to form new…

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Keep Cannabis Legal makes rounds in Homer ahead of vote

Members of the Keep Cannabis Legal campaign are making the rounds ahead of the Oct. 3 general election.…

Former Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff leaves federal bankruptcy court in Anchorage Sept. 11 after a judge approved the sale of the the company to the Binkley Co. for $1 million. Left unresolved is the fate for nearly 200 creditors still owed $2.3 million in unpaid bills incurred by the ADN under Rogoff’s ownership. (Photo/Naomi Klouda/AJOC)

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ADN sold after no other bidder surfaced

The Alaska Dispatch News will be able to stay in business under the new ownership of the Binkley…

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks to the Anchorage Rotary Club on Aug. 29, 2017 at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Murkowski said the contentious health care debate will resume after the August recess, and tax reform is on the schedule as well. (Photo/Naomi Klouda/AJOC)

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Murkowski: Health care debate to return, tax reform on tap

The “right fight” starts next week in Congress when the Senate will take up health care again in…

Homer resident Terry Elliott works his last shift at Safeway on his birthday before retiring Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 in Homer, Alaska. Elliott, who was worked there since approximately 1989, turned 62 on Tuesday. He has also volunteered with the Boy Scouts of America for decades. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Local man retires after years of service

If shoppers frequent Safeway regularly, chances are they’ve seen or met Terry Elliott. The Homer resident has worked…

A worker pauses from working an exploration rig at the Pebble mine in this file photo. Sponsors of a ballot initiative targeting large-scale projects say they want more protection for salmon-bearing waters while their opponents argue it is yet another attempt to stop resource development such as Pebble. (Photo/File/AJOC)

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Ballot measure would give greater say to ADFG

Alaska fishing groups concerned about the impacts that large-scale development projects could have on salmon habitat are pushing…

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Try Market for fermented foods

One of the things I love about a visit to the Homer Farmers Market (besides chatting with friends…

The 399-foot U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star is the only heavy icebreaker in the U.S. fleet and Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft said at an Aug. 24 speech in Anchorage that he’s personally pressed the case for at least six more to President Donald Trump. (Photo/File/AP)

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Coast Guard commandant keeps up push for icebreakers

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft has one very clear message: the country needs more icebreakers. Zukunft…

Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff’s attorney filed a motion with the federal bankruptcy court laying out a proposal to take auction bids in advance of the Sept. 11 sale hearing. (Photo/Naomi Klouda/AJOC)

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Rogoff attorney files proposal for auction sale of Alaska Dispatch News

Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff’s attorney is proposing to hold an auction for the sale of the…

Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Sam Cotten (left) and Board of Fisheries member Reed Morisky (right) testify during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation field hearing on the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, hosted by Sen. Dan Sullivan on Aug. 23 in Soldotna. (Photo/Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

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Stakeholders voice preferred changes to federal fisheries act

SOLDOTNA — Sportfishing groups and advocates want to see the federal government separate the management of sport and…