Site Logo
Wild Honey Bistro co-owner Scott Livingston speaks to the Homer City Council on construction planned for Bunnell Avenue and Ohlson Lane in the packed Cowles Council Chambers on Monday, April 14, 2025, in Homer City Hall in Homer, Alaska. Screenshot.

News

Bunnell Avenue, Ohlson Lane improvements to move forward

The Homer City Council awarded the project contract to East Road Services, Inc. last Monday.

Kachemak Bay Conservation Society Vice President Penelope Haas points at a presentation slide on Homer housing data on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at Kachemak Bay Campus. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

News

Homer gathers to discuss comp plan, potential city code rewrites

Homer has changed rapidly over the last dozen or so years, as any local can tell you. Many…

Penelope Haas is vice president of the Kachemak Bay Conservation Society and a commercial fishermen in Bristol Bay. (Courtesy photo)

Opinion

Point of View: Climate change is a hard reality

The chair of the Homer Planning Commission at a regular meeting this month called into question the science…

City of Homer Special Projects and Communications Coordinator Jenny Carroll points to a posterboard of one of the proposed harbor alternatives while talking with community members during the Homer Harbor Expansion public meeting on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at Kachemak Bay Campus. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

News

Homer Harbor expansion project shares updates on $4.2 million feasibility study

The purpose of the meeting was to share updates on the feasibility study and garner public comments.

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

News

Council passes studio zoning ordinance

Ordinance 25-20 permits studios in three additional zoning districts in Homer.

Rika Mouw testifies in opposition to an ordinance that would have rezoned a wetlands parcel during the Homer City Council meeting on Monday, March 10, 2025, in the Homer City Hall Cowles Council Chambers in Homer, Alaska. Screenshot.

News

Council shuts down wetlands rezone

The community opposed Ordinance 25-27, which would have rezoned a rural residential parcel to the East End Mixed…

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

News

Council supports State Transportation Improvements Plan amendment

DOT recently added an erosion mitigation study for Homer Spit Road in the 2024-2027 STIP Amendment 2.

Homer Airport Terminal and Cargo Facility on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

News

DOT gives airport updates at public meeting

Construction is slated to begin April 7.

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

News

Council to hold public hearing on liquor license petition

The hearing is scheduled for the next city council meeting on March 10.

City Planner Ryan Foster (left) reads out a memorandum as a preview to the planning commission’s discussion on implementing a moratorium for specific conditional use permit applications on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in the Homer City Hall Cowles Council Chambers in Homer, Alaska. Screenshot.

News

Planning commission forgoes CUP moratorium

The commission will instead address issues with coastal edge lots in the Title 21 revisions.

Cars yield to oncoming traffic before commuting south on the single open lane of Homer Spit Road on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, following significant erosion damage to the highway that occurred on Saturday in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
Cars yield to oncoming traffic before commuting south on the single open lane of Homer Spit Road on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, following significant erosion damage to the highway that occurred on Saturday in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

News

DOT adds Spit erosion study to State Transportation Improvement Program

The public is invited to submit comments through March 20.

Cook Inlet can be seen through the window of a Ravn aircraft in October 2019. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

News

Ravn discontinues service to Homer

Aleutian Airways continues to provide service to and from Homer.

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

News

City establishes long-term sister city fund

City staff will coordinate with the Homer Foundation to create and maintain the fund.