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Moose hunting on lower peninsula opens Sept. 1

In a change from 2014, moose hunting season in game management unit 15C, the lower Kenai Peninsula, opens…

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Editor’s note: The story on a sentencing hearing for Demarqus Green has been updated on Aug. 21, 2015,…

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Beach run takes new focus: resiliency

For 22 years, Homer’s annual Run for Women, later the Breast Cancer Run, has raised awareness of breast…

A group of U.S. Coast Guard wives wait at the Pioneer Dock on Thursday to greet their husbands after a four-month deployment on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hickory. From left to right are Melissa Parker, Nicole Ziemba, Kaitlyn Burns, Emily Davis, Lyndsay McGarran, Carly Robinson, Madison Russell and Laura Hupp.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Welcome Home Hickory!

Kenai Peninsula Fair promises fun for all

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Kenai Peninsula Fair promises fun for all

The 2015 Kenai Peninsula Fair is slated to be three days packed with an eclectic blend of entertainment,…

Dan Young stands on Spit property he and his wife Pam own. Located on the west side of the Spit across from the Fishing Hole, the property once was an RV campground. Today there’s little left of the campground; erosion has swept it away.-Photo by Miranda Weiss

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Time, tides change Spit

I t was an idyllic childhood on the Homer Spit that Mo Hillstrand enjoyed during the summertime, when…

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7 file for 2 council positions

A last-day filing by three candidates on Monday boosted the Homer City Council election from four candidates last…

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Less restrictive beach policy proposal to be introduced at Sept. 14 meeting

Citizens riled up about a proposed city of Homer ordinance that would ban year-round driving on Bishop’s Beach…

A group of U.S. Coast Guard wives wait at the Pioneer Dock in Thursday to greet their husbands after a four-month deployment on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hickory. From left to right are Melissa Parker, Nicole Ziemba, Kaitlyn Burns, Emily Davis, Lyndsay McGarran, Carly Robinson, Madison Russell and Laura Hupp.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Hickory comes home

Holding signs that said things like “It’s time to give your Mrs. her kisses,” “Keep Calm: You’re Home,”…

Members of the 1967 Homer Nordic ski team pose in front of Homer High School. In front row, from left, are Milli Morawitz, Sally Calhoun, Gayle Gregory and Sally Barnett; in back row, from left, are Lynn Cason, Robbie Hoedel, Larry Martin and Dave Schroer, who was recently inducted into the Alaska High School Hall of Fame.-Photo provided by the Schroer family

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Homer’s Schroer inducted into Hall of Fame

When the state inducted a new class of luminaries into the Alaska High School Hall of Fame, the…

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Dunne files for assembly

Homer resident William R. “Willy” Dunne has filed to run for the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly seat in…

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Fairbanks assembly debates tax on pot sales

FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly members are set to vote on a tax proposal on marijuana…

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Cordova man arrested in HEA burglary

Surveillance video and a chance encounter with a man sleeping in a stairwell at the Kachemak Center led…