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Homer City Manager candidate Jeffrey Trinker interviews with the city council on Tuesday. Trinker currently is executive director of support services for Rosenberg, Texas.

Council offers top post to Texas man updated 3:28pm

Saying they liked his eloquence, communication skills and perspective on the Homer economy, the Homer City Council on Tuesday selected Jeffrey Trinker as city manager over Homer Public Works ... Read More

Mud makes for tough, dirty drive 03/04/15

Up on Fireweed Avenue, a gravel road about 4 miles out of town off East Hill Road, varied thrushes can be heard singing, a spring call that sounds like old-style telephones. That’s...

Cause of razor clam decline remains mystery 03/04/15

Razor clamming, the muddy, yet popular sport that attracts thousands of visiting and local outdoor enthusiasts to the lower Kenai Peninsula’s beaches each year, has been prohibited on...

Lobbying for kids 03/04/15

Advocates for early childhood learning programs picket on Pioneer Avenue outside the Legislative Information Office building on Tuesday. They protested budget cuts proposed by the House...

Woodard Creek Coalition: Promoting a Downtown Asset 03/04/15

It doesn’t get anymore in our backyard than Woodard Creek. For 541 Homer lots, Woodard Creek not only is in the backyard, in some instances the city’s only year-round flowing creek...

Another piece of peninsula’s past emerges 3:59pm

Last show 3:03pm

Borough assembly dumps ordinance prohibiting marijuana cultivation

State issues definition of ‘in public’

What big teeth you have

Marimba Madness: bittersweet performance for Williwaw

City to comply with judge’s ruling, says decision doesn’t apply to all

No-so Snow Rondi

Pot: What's legal, what's not

Public to testify on borough ordinance prohibiting marijuana grow operations

Judge orders city to explain why it’s not following condo decision

Manager list now totals 2

AP Volunteers: Sale of angel kits benefits Haakenson

Anchor Point Snow Rondi: a Time to "Let Loose"

Carnival gets to heart of Homer winter

Event connects women of faith

What’s in the works for Waddell Way?

Business

Dusek named new superintendent

Interim superintendent Sean Dusek will assume the superintendent of schools position on July 1, 2015. The Board of Education voted unanimously to offer the job to the 22-year Kenai Peninsula ...

Bald Mountain Air Service earns Medallion Shield

Therapy dog helps cancer patients get through treatments

SVT Health & Wellness hires nurse practitioner

Arts

Photography featured for First Friday

Often the art of photography doesn’t get as much attention for gallery shows, but this month two exhibits demonstrate a wide variety of equipment and subjects. At Bunnell Street Arts Center, ...

Ottavi returns to Bunnell for photography residency

Annual Jubilee show, performance is in April

Groups spur members to hone creative skills

Schools

Kachemak Selo: New school, hybrid distance learning program part of plan

The morning’s hush is disturbed only by the sound of a crow’s wings at it flies just beyond the edge of the bluff. The sun is still on the distant side of the Kenai Mountains, its light beginning ...

Drumfest

Diversity drives Connections

School Events

Sports

Mariners host Regions, games under way today

In their final weekend of regular season games, the Mariners took on Grace Christian, Anchorage Christian School and Houston at home in a series of nail-biting contests that were decided in the ...