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    Mount Redoubt volcano can be seen across Cook Inlet from the shores of South Kenai Beach, in Kenai, Alaska, on April 10, 2022. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources in January reported demand for Cook Inlet gas could outpace supply as early as 2027 without additional development in the basin’s active fields. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)
    Mayors’ coalition to assess energy needs as Cook...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 4, 2024 2:30 am

    The group includes peninsula borough and city mayors

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    A design of the proposed new Kenai Peninsula Borough logo, left, and the current borough logo. (Logos via Kenai Peninsula Borough)
    Assembly mulls borough logo rebrand
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • December 20, 2023 2:30 am

    The borough’s current logo is “dated, difficult to scale, and too detailed to be effective,” according to legislation proposing the change

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    Audience members listen to Iris Fontana, of the Satanic Temple, deliver an invocation during a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. Fontana was the last person to deliver an assembly invocation before a new borough policy, which says only borough volunteer chaplains may deliver the invocation, takes effect. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Satanic Temple gets last word as assembly ends...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • December 20, 2023 2:30 am

    Effective Jan. 1, assembly invocations will be delivered exclusively by volunteer chaplains who serve the borough’s fire and emergency medical service areas

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    From left: Rep. Ben Carpenter, Sen. Jesse Bjorkman and Rep. Justin Ruffridge discuss their priorities regarding education during a work session with members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District on Monday, Dec. 4, 2023 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    School funding, accountability dominate school board work session...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • December 6, 2023 2:30 am

    Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, Rep. Ben Carpenter and Rep. Justin Ruffridge joined the board for a work session in Soldotna

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    A state plow truck clears snow from the Kenai Spur Highway on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    DOT identifies roads included in brine reduction plan
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • December 6, 2023 2:30 am

    The department said its goal is to reduce brine use overall in the region by 40%

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    Local field for 2024 state elections takes shape
    Local field for 2024 state elections takes shape
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 21, 2023 2:30 am

    Although Alaska’s next general election is almost a year away, candidates interested in representing the Kenai Peninsula on a statewide…

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    Signs direct visitors at the City of Seward’s city hall annex on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021 in Seward, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Seward council considers electricity rate hike
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 15, 2023 2:30 am

    A resolution considered at Monday’s council meeting would increase rates by $0.06 per kWh for all customers

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    The borough’s welcome sign greets drivers as they enter the Kenai Peninsula on Milepost 75 of the Seward Highway, on Sunday, May 5, 2019, near Turnagain Pass, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
    Borough to include cities in tourism promotion materials
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 15, 2023 2:30 am

    Borough code doesn’t allow the borough to promote city-specific tourism without entering into a partnership with that city

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    A firefighter from Cooper Landing Emergency Services refills a water tanker at the banks of the Kenai River in Cooper Landing, Alaska on Aug. 30, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)
    Emergency services, roads top borough capital priority list
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 15, 2023 2:30 am

    The 72-page plan outlines more than 30 projects

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    Adam Bertoldo testifies in opposition to a resolution only permitting certain chaplains to deliver invocations before Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meetings on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Assembly OKs changes to borough invocation policy
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 15, 2023 1:30 am

    The new policy says only chaplains may give assembly invocations

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    The Seldovia archway is one of the first landmarks visitors see when stepping off the boat. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)
    Seldovia receives $2.3M to replace Jakolof Bay dock
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 8, 2023 2:30 am

    The project is one of seven in Alaska funded through the department’s Port Infrastructure Development Program,

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    Sockeye salmon are caught in a set gillnet at a test site for selective harvest setnet gear in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Assembly calls for economic disaster declaration for east...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 1, 2023 2:30 am

    The resolution is in response to this year’s unprecedented closure of the fishery by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game

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    Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)
    City tries again with comprehensive plan
    By Delcenia Cosman • November 1, 2023 1:30 am

    After more than a year of groundwork and debate by the City of Homer, the city council took a concrete…

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