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A quarantine or “Lima” flag of yellow-and-black flies from the M/V Tustumena on Friday, June 12, 2020, at the Pioneer Dock in Homer, Alaska. Seven crew members tested positive for COVID-19, and as of Friday three of them remained quarantined on the state ferry. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
State logs its highest daily COVID-19 case count;...
By Brian Mazurek • June 14, 2020 2:30 am

No new Homer cases in Sunday report

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The Friendship Terrace assisting level center, as seen on Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Homer, Alaska. A part of the Homer Senior Citizens Senior Center, Friendship Terrace reported two staff members tested positive for COVID-19 on June 10, and that a resident tested positive on Friday. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
Resident in Homer assisted living home tests positive...
By Megan Pacer • June 12, 2020 5:30 am

Total number of COVID-19 cases in Homer up to 29

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COVID-19. (Image courtesy the CDC)
Two Friendship Terrace assisted living staff members test...
By Michael Armstrong • June 11, 2020 5:30 am

No residents have tested positive yet

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A king salmon during the 67th annual Golden North Salmon Derby at the Don D. Statter Memorial Boat Harbor in August 2013. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire
Kings sport fishing closed on Kenai River, limited...
By Brian Mazurek • June 10, 2020 2:00 pm

Early-run king salmon emergency orders on Kenai, Kasilof Rivers to last through June 30

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Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)
Council interviews city manager candidates
By Megan Pacer • June 10, 2020 5:30 am

As the search for a new Homer city manager continues, members of the Homer City Council got to hear from…

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Kachemak Bay State Park gets belated 50th birthday party
Kachemak Bay State Park gets belated 50th birthday...
By Megan Pacer • June 10, 2020 5:30 am

Volunteers, supporters celebrate anniversary of Alaska’s first state park

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Homer City Hall. (Homer file photo)
Chief medical officer talks coronavirus with council
By Megan Pacer • June 10, 2020 5:30 am

State changes case recording for Kenai Peninsula, Zink peninsula spread is not widespread

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COVID-19. (Image courtesy CDC)
Kenai Peninsula passes Fairbanks North Star Borough in...
By Megan Pacer • June 10, 2020 5:30 am

Homer still leads peninsula in number of cases per city

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A look inside the Homer Police Department’s training, use of force policies
A look inside the Homer Police Department’s training,...
By Megan Pacer • June 10, 2020 5:30 am

As locally held protests in support of the national (and international) Black Lives Matter movement come to an end, conversation…

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The state ferry M/V Tustumena pulls into the Homer Harbor on Monday, June 8, 2020 in Homer, Alaska. It carried 41 people — six quarantined passengers and 35 crew members, one of whom tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday when the ship was docked in Dutch Harbor. Six additional employees who were aboard the ship have now also tested positive and will quarantine on the boat. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
6 more Tustumena crew test positive for COVID-19
By Megan Pacer • June 9, 2020 5:30 am

The 7 total employees will quarantine on the ship; all 6 passengers tested negative

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COVID-19. (Image courtesy CDC)
State announces 11th death associated with COVID-19
By Megan Pacer • June 9, 2020 5:30 am

DHSS updates the way cases are recorded for the Kenai Peninsula

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Staff from South Peninsula Hospital and Homer Public Health board the M/V Tustumena to test 35 crew members and six passengers Monday, June 8, 2020 at the Homer Ferry Terminal in Homer, Alaska. The six passengers who boarded the state ferry out of Homer were quarantined along with several crew members after a member of the crew tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday when the ship was docked in Dutch Harbor. The Tustumena docked in Homer shortly after 7 p.m. Monday and all 41 people were tested on board and only allowed to disembark if they had safe, private transportation to their final destination to quarantine. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
Tustumena returns to Homer carrying COVID-19 positive crew...
By Megan Pacer • June 8, 2020 5:30 am

6 passengers, remaining crew will all be tested and asked to quarantine

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The M/V Tustumena comes into Homer after spending the day in Seldovia in 2010. (Homer News file photo)
6 passengers quarantined on Tustumena after crew member...
By Megan Pacer • June 7, 2020 5:30 am

Kenai Peninsula up to 79 cases at weekend’s close

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