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City hopes to track speeds on Ben Walters Lane

The city of Homer is eyeing a way to get a solid answer on whether there’s a speeding…

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Homer Solar Tour is Saturday

Homes and businesses using varieties of solar power are on tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday…

The 39-year-old current Homer Police Station at its location on upper Heath Street near Homer High School and above the Homer Volunteer Fire Department. (Homer News file photo)

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Council certifies Prop 1 election; cop shop bond passes

At a special meeting on Monday, the Homer City Council certified the results of last week’s special election…

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‘Viva Vaquita!’ comes to Homer

Homer participates in “Viva Vaquita!”, an international series of events held July 7 to support the critically endangered…

Gage Dillon, 14, waves a pride flag while dressed in a dinosaur suit before Homer’s first ever Pride March on Saturday, June 23, 2018 at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska. About 280 people filled the streets during the march from the park to Grace Ridge Brewery. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Nearly 300 turn out for Homer’s first Pride March

In 2018, Pride finally made it officially to Homer, Alaska. The first ever Pride March was held in…

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Fourth of July events

Fourth of July events • 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 50th Annual American Legion and Auxiliary Fourth of…

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Council resolves HERC membership; talks recent Pride controversy

The Homer Education and Recreation Complex Task Force finally has solid membership after being formed as a body…

Evacuees gather at Kodiak High School in Kodiak on Tuesday, Jan 23, after an earthquake and tsunami alert. A powerful undersea earthquake sent Alaskans fumbling for suitcases and racing to evacuation centers in the middle of the night Tuesday after a cellphone alert warned that a tsunami could smash into the state’s southern coast and western Canada. (Grigore Ciubotaru via Associated Press)

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Shaken System: Alaska’s disaster warning program has critical flaws, documents reveal

On the night of Jan. 23, Alaskans across the Gulf Coast were awakened by one of the most…

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Fourth of July events

Fourth of July events

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Council resolves HERC membership; talks recent Pride controversy

The Homer Education and Recreation Complex Task Force finally has solid membership after being formed as a body…

Gage Dillon, 14, waves a pride flag while dressed in a dinosaur suit before Homer’s first ever Pride March on Saturday, June 23, 2018 at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska. About 280 people filled the streets during the march from the park to Grace Ridge Brewery. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Nearly 300 turn out for Homer’s first Pride March

In 2018, Pride finally made it officially to Homer, Alaska.

Evacuees gather at Kodiak High School in Kodiak on Tuesday, Jan 23, after an earthquake and tsunami alert. A powerful undersea earthquake sent Alaskans fumbling for suitcases and racing to evacuation centers in the middle of the night Tuesday after a cellphone alert warned that a tsunami could smash into the state’s southern coast and western Canada. (Grigore Ciubotaru via Associated Press)

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Shaken System: Alaska’s disaster warning program has critical flaws, documents reveal

On the night of Jan. 23, Alaskans across the Gulf Coast were awakened by one of the most…

A voter fills out his ballot during the Tuesday, June 26, 2018 special election at Homer City Hall in Homer, Alaska. Preliminary results show Proposition 1 passing, which means the city will be allowed to go out to bond to pay for a new police station. The city plans to raise sales taxes to pay back the bond. Most of that tax increase will be eliminated when the bond is paid off. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Preliminary results show cop shop proposition passing

Homer will have its long-awaited new police station. After 39 years, police officers in the city will get…