A man upset that he’d been sold a defective phone card allegedly knocked over displays and threatened to shoot Safeway…
Two fishermen in Seldovia at about 8:30 a.m. last Saturday reported finding a body on Backer’s Island, a small island…
In this climate-changed world, there are reasons to get sentimental about ice. It is old, for one. Our local sheet…
A Discovery Channel reality TV star facing a charge of using a helicopter in a bear hunt suffered injuries from…
In his 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” philosopher Garrett Hardin posed a dilemma. When someone uses a commonly…
What do you get when you mix 15 teenage girls, a church camping trip and a hot, muggy day? Girl…
Shawn and Ember Jackinsky’s garden looks almost like every other northern garden. There are currants, chickens, gooseberries, carrots and kale,…
Next Monday at its 6 p.m. regular meeting, the Homer City Council will go from placid tidepools to heavy surf…
An Alaska Air Guard Guardian Angel team early on July 28 rescued two hikers lost near China Poot Lake on…
Candidate filing periods opened this week for Homer City Council seats and Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, Board of Education and…
Fish cutters at Coal Point Seafoods notice there’s less halibut coming into the 23-year-old fish processing business on Thursdays. Clad…
Alaska’s economy and demographics are changing. Declining revenues have serious long-term implications for local government. Underlying causes — the oil…
Alaska State Troopers on July 24 charged a fourth person in an alleged theft of about $200 in oysters from…
