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Homer's Marina Co competes in the 100-yard breaststroke at the Kenai Invitational at Kenai Central High School on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Central swimmers, divers sweep Kenai Invitational

The Kenai Central swimming and diving teams swept the Kenai Invitational on Friday and Saturday.

A crowd moves along the sidewalk during the Third Annual Kenai Peninsula Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Lawton Drive in Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Walking toward a world without Alzheimer’s

The Third Annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s hosted in Kenai

The Kenai Municipal Airport is seen on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai sets stage for roughly $25M in airport maintenance next summer

The grant is for improvements to the airport runway, to runway lighting systems, and to the airport’s storm…

Henry Knackstedt, Alex Douthit, Victoria Askin and Bridget Grieme participate in a forum with candidates for Kenai mayor and city council at the Kenai Community Library in Kenai, Alaska, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai mayoral, city council candidates talk city’s future at forum

The forum was the third in a series of forums leading up to the Oct. 7 municipal election.

The Kenai Municipal Airport is seen on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai to receive $1.6M federal grant for airport improvements

The city had previously appropriated around $519,000 for the project.

Water pools alongside Big Eddy Road in Soldotna, Alaska, on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Update: Flood watch canceled for low-lying areas of Kenai River

A glacier dam near Skilak Lake may still release later this fall, the National Weather Service said.

The Homer Mariners varsity football team faces the Kenai Central High School Kardinals on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025, at the Homer High School football field in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Homer football shuts out Kenai

The Mariners have given up just eight points this season.

A harbor seal is released into Cook Inlet by the Alaska SeaLife Center’s Wildlife Response Program at North Kenai Beach in Kenai, Alaska, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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SeaLife Center releases 2 harbor seals at Kenai beach

The two seals were admitted into the center’s Wildlife Response Program in June.

Fourth grade students work on their new nametags on the first day of the 2025-2026 school year at Nikiski North Star Elementary School in Nikiski, Alaska, on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Giving students their ‘best year yet’

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s 42 schools welcome kids back into classrooms.

Jakob Kooly, vice chair of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s tribal council, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. secretary of health and human services, speak during a press conference at the Dena’ina Wellness Center in Kenai, Alaska, on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Tribal health, nutrition discussed during U.S. Health Secretary Kennedy’s visit to Kenai

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. toured the Dena’ina Wellness Center on Thursday.

Armor rock from Sand Point is offloaded from a barge in the Kenai River in Kenai, Alaska, part of ongoing construction efforts for the Kenai River Bluff Stabilization Project on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Work continues on Kenai Bluff stabilization project

The wall has already taken shape over a broad swath of the affected area.

A sockeye salmon is carried from the waters of Cook Inlet on North Kenai Beach in Kenai, Alaska, during the first day of the Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery on Thursday, July 10, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai River dipnet fishery open 24 hours beginning Friday night

Per fish counts available from the department, 471,000 sockeye have been counted so far this year — with…

Nets are extended from North Kenai Beach in Kenai, Alaska, during the first day of the Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery on Thursday, July 10, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘A really good day’

Kenai River personal use sockeye salmon dipnet fishery opens.