Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

Todd and Beth Boling, left and center, and Matt North, right, pose in front of the Alice's Champagne Palace mirror on Monday. The Bolings and North have purchased the iconic Homer bar from the English Bay Corporation.

Historic Alice’s gets new life

You just can’t keep a good bar down. Yeah, that was the story in 1976, when the Club Bar rose from the ashes after a fire destroyed it. That was the story in 2007, when after three years Alice’s ... Read More

Democrat Dunbar wants Young’s job 07/23/14

In the biennial election for Alaska’s lone representative to U.S. Congress, the Alaska Democratic Party has sent up a steady stream of candidates attempting to defeat Republican...

PARKS DAY: CELEBRATING EARLY HOMER SPIT HISTORY 07/23/14

Most everyone knows the story of the naming of Homer, and how in April 1896, 50 men and one woman, Della Banks, came with the Alaska Gold Mining Company and settled on the Homer Spit. Needing a...

Putting safety first pits motorist against city code 07/24/14

Long hours of fishing near the Barren Islands over the Fourth of July weekend and a 4 a.m. arrival back in the Homer Small Boat Harbor meant a late — or early, as the case may be — start time for...

Who’s running for Homer mayor? 07/23/14

Candidate filing for the Oct. 7 municipal election, both the city of Homer and the Kenai Peninsula Borough, opens Aug. 1 and continues through Aug. 15. Names already are rising to the...

Hoka Hey riders head to Homer

Smallpond wins OK for new site on East End Road

Kachemak Kids center announces it’s closing

Library staff solves case of stolen skateboard

Team Chloe fueled by future

3 charged with taking 32 overlimit of halibut

20th annual Homer Breast Cancer Run is making changes

Lake Clark staff offer several free programs

And the gold goes to…

Sitting on the dock of the bay: CACS gets new access

Gardeners prepare for weekend of activities; public is welcome

GOP U.S. Senate candidates target issues, each other in Homer debate

Harbormaster office: an unclear chapter of Homer history

Homer chef to compete in seafood cook-off

Navarre named to gasline advisory board

Harbor office construction begins with award of bid

Participants, crowds top the rodeo charts

Business

Antiques, art market offers unique shopping

The incessant noise of the crowded Sterling Highway running through Soldotna faded quickly in a gravel lot behind Pizza Boys and the Shops Around the Corner Saturday where a group of five white ...

Historic Alice’s gets new life

Maggie Goedeke joins staff of Homer Physical Therapy

Friend, foe of oil tax repeal effort square off

Arts

Salmonstock

Like a good salmon run that keeps coming back stronger and stronger, Salmonstock, the three-day celebration of salmon and music, returns for its fourth year at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in ...

Author, artists sign book today, Friday

Iconic musician Hobo Jim gains fans worldwide

Hmong film shows today

Sports

Little League ‘Majors’ take on All-Stars

For the first time in three years, Homer Little League sent a Majors team to the All-Stars. “The boys practiced together for two weeks and made great progress in defensive plays, hitting, ...

Tournament wraps up softball season

Olympic swimmers do clinic

Sports physical clinic to be held Aug. 2

Outdoors

Preening on the dock of the lake

Good ol’ days back at Fishing Hole

Homer cyclist first in Fireweed 400

What a summer — birds, grands, peonies

Opinion

What’s happened to Homer?

What a shame that Homer — once known as the conscience of Alaska — could not even sustain a plastic bag ban in the community because a certain group decided it was a government conspiracy. Plastic bags are a menace to an aquatic environment and all you need to prove that point ...