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Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly president, Peter Ribbens, speaks in an aside to District 8 representative and Vice President Kelly Cooper before the beginning of the Aug. 5, 2025, KPB Assembly meeting at the Porcupine Theater in Homer, Alaska. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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Voters to decide on borough sales tax cap increase

Assembly Ordinance 2025-14 aims to adjust the sales tax cap with inflation.

President Zen Kelly speaks during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Board of Education in Soldotna, Alaska, on Monday, May 5, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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KPBSD reverses some activity stipend cuts, raises fees

The district’s final budget adopted in July called for a halving of all activity stipends.

The Soldotna Field House is seen on a sunny Monday, March 31, 2025, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Grand opening for Soldotna Field House on Saturday

Though the field house will be opened this weekend, it will not open to general public operations for…

Joel Johnson, president of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation; Carrie Hourman, lead sustainability director for Dow Climate & Circularity; and Susan Sherman, executive director of the Marine Debris Foundation, sit for a panel at the Kenai River Sportfishing Association’s Kenai Classic Roundtable at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska, on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Annual Kenai Classic Roundtable to focus on Alaska king salmon

The event will be held from noon to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 20, in the Soldotna Field…

A voter fills out their ballot at the Kenai No. 2 Precinct in the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Few candidates have filed for upcoming election

The filing period for candidacy applications across all six electoral races closes at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug.…

A vintage KBBI mug, repurposed and filled with various office supplies, rests in the Homer News office window on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

Community

KBBI seeks art submissions for annual membership mugs

The mugs will be released in October, as an incentive for the fall membership drive.

This map shows the location of a magnitude 4.0 earthquake that hit about 8 miles east of Ninilchik, Alaska on Thursday, Aug. 7, at 3:45 p.m. The map also shows the intensity of the quake as reported by observers. (Map by U.S. Geological Survey)

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4.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 12 miles east of Ninilchik

No tsunami alerts were issued.

Woman of Wisdom Roberta Highland holds her award from South Peninsula Haven House in this photo taken July 25, 2020, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy South Peninsula Haven House)
Woman of Wisdom Roberta Highland holds her award from South Peninsula Haven House in this photo taken July 25, 2020, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy South Peninsula Haven House)

Community

Celebration of life — Roberta Highland

A Celebration of the Life of Roberta Highland will be held on Saturday, Aug. 9 at 2 p.m.…

A community member works with clay on a wheel in the ceramics studio at Homer Council on the Arts in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Homer Council on the Arts

Community

Homer’s art scene heads into fall

Like the fireweed blooming in fields around town, Homer Council on the Arts’ activities are bursting onto the…

Nick Varney

Sports

Reeling ‘Em In: Remember that fish are fish

I have heard from many of you complaining that those &#@*% fish are driving some of you nuts…

Runner and cyclists line up at the starting line near the Jakolof Bay Dock on July 26, 2025, for the annual Jakolof Bay 10 Miler in Seldovia, Alaska. Photo provided by Tania Spurkland

Sports

‘10 tough miles’

Seldovia’s Jakolof Bay 10 Miler race was held on July 26.

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.

The Sterling Highway crosses the Kenai River near the Russian River Campground on March 15, 2020 near Cooper Landing, Alaska. (Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

Sports

Russian River Campground closed to public use beginning next week

The area is expected to reopen Oct. 12.