SPH welcomes Whittaker South Peninsula Hospital welcomes Dana Whittaker, Certified Nurse Midwife, to the women’s health team at Homer Medical…
HMC offers new therapy Dr. Katie Ostrom, M.D., obstetrics-gynecology, at Homer Medical Center, now performs laser therapy as a painless…
My own visual memories of Togiak are not much more than a slate of wide, open grey sky that merged…
This last weekend was crazy busy. Hundreds of people were in town touring farms. There was the American Grown Field…
Alaska’s Let’s Ride Alaska Act, House Bill 132, the bill that allows ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft, does…
Two new hires have joined the Homer News staff. Megan Pacer, 24, started July 17 as staff writer. Office coordinator…
Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting 6 p.m. Aug. 1, George Navarre Borough Administration Building, Soldotna; Audioconference, Homer Borough Annex, 206…
The Homer Farmers Market started back in 1999. That first season had just a handful of vendors selling outside on…
After its May decision to stop seeking permits, Delaware-based PacRim Coal is giving up what had been a key piece…
A proposal that would allow on-site consumption of marijuana will go out for public comment after the Alaska Marijuana Control…
Voters may get to decide whether Kenai Peninsula Borough hotels and bed-and-breakfasts should have to charge a bed tax in…
Railbelt utility leaders want the Alaska Energy Authority to approve a $46.4 million expansion of the Bradley Lake hydroelectric plant….
A little over a year ago I took a trip to visit a friend in Japan. The culture around food…