JUNEAU (AP) — Alaska’s minimum wage increased by a dollar an hour, to $9.75, as of Jan. 1. The state…
Anna Frost has joined the Homer News staff as a reporter and photographer. Frost moved to Homer from Whittier, Calif.,…
Despite the scanty state spending expected in 2016, this year’s state capital budget may provide funding for long-deferred upgrades to…
JUNEAU — The president and CEO of the Alaska Aerospace Corp. said Monday that the board of the state-owned corporation…
With the Alaska legislative session beginning Jan. 19, many residents are holding their breath to see how legislators will address…
Those cushy state jobs are going to be a little harder to come by after Gov. Bill Walker’s administration instituted…
What a long, strange trip it’s been — and that was only year one. In his first year in office,…
Homer Electric Association decreased its rates starting Jan. 1, while an unresolved proposal that may raise them remains suspended until…
Oil prices continue to lurk at less than $40 per barrel, and despite hope for a legislative salve, Standard &…
When the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales strand, it can be a guessing game as to how many and how…
ANCHORAGE — Alaska Inuit hunter John Goodwin for decades has hunted ugruk, the bearded seal, a marine mammal prized for…
A new natural health business will celebrate its Homer opening Saturday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Forget Me Not Alternative Healing…
South Peninsula Hospital and Dr. Rob Downey announce the opening of a Functional Medicine Clinic in January. Downey has nine…
