Tustumena Lake

A bull moose browses off Lakeshore Drive on Tuesday. The moose appears to have only three brow tines on either side and thus wouldn’t be a legal kill it it were outside city limits.-Photo courtesy of George Harbeson

Moose hunters’ chances good as season opens

For hunters heading out at the start of the fall moose hunting season this week, as in 2013, the odds of getting a moose should… Continue reading

 

This map from the Alaska Interagency Incident Management Type 2 Team shows the current status of the Funny River Horse Trail Fire.-Map provided

Funny River Trail fire grows to 67,000 acres

High, dry winds from the southwest could increase activity on the Funny River Horse Trail fire Friday afternoon. In a press release this morning, the… Continue reading

 

Funny River Trail fire grows to 67,000 acres

Smoke affects all of southcentral Alaska; Funny River Trail fire grows to 67,000 acres   High, dry winds from the southwest could increase activity on… Continue reading

 

Smoke from the Funny River Horse Trail fire shoots more than 8,000 feet in the air Tuesday as the fire spread to consume nearly 7,000 acres of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge land in less than 24 hours. Dry, windy conditions have exacerbated the fire conditions spreading it into a line stretching more than 10 miles long and about 1 mile wide.-Photo by Rashah McChesney, Morris News Service - Alaska

Funny River fire grows, blankets Homer in smoke

As the Funny River Horse Trail fire raged about 50 miles north of Homer, a long plume of smoke extending out into the Gulf of… Continue reading

Smoke from the Funny River Horse Trail fire shoots more than 8,000 feet in the air Tuesday as the fire spread to consume nearly 7,000 acres of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge land in less than 24 hours. Dry, windy conditions have exacerbated the fire conditions spreading it into a line stretching more than 10 miles long and about 1 mile wide.-Photo by Rashah McChesney, Morris News Service - Alaska
Early Tuesday morning, smoke from a fire on Funny River Road, east of Soldotna, was making its way south to the Homer area.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky

Fire grows near Funny River Road

A fire that began near Funny River Road in Soldotna has grown to nearly seven miles long and almost a mile wide, according to the… Continue reading

Early Tuesday morning, smoke from a fire on Funny River Road, east of Soldotna, was making its way south to the Homer area.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky
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