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The vessel sank just minutes after leaving Homer Harbor on Tuesday evening. Nearby vessels responded quickly after a passenger called for help.

The Ninilchik Rodeo and beach horse races took place at the Ninilchik Fairgrounds in the first weekend of July. Homer’s Emilie Springer talked with Rodeo Coordinator Shirley Cox and some youth assistants about what the history of the event and what the 2025 event included.

At the end of June, Red flag fire warnings were in effect for interior Alaska after a week of high burn rates. KBBI’s Emilie Springer spoke with University of Alaska Fairbanks climate specialist Rick Thoman about the status of summer burns and a decrease in federal funding impacts to weather monitoring.

Dungeness crab harvest is now open in parts of Cook Inlet under a newly approved subsistence fishery. The season opened July 1 and runs through March 2026.

The mural of performing artists on Pioneer Avenue in front of Nomar received a new addition of characters by artist Tom Reed and the wall reaches its 40th year anniversary this summer with the original 12 characters painted in the summer of 1985.

Emma Sulczynski will be finishing an undergraduate degree from the political science department in Fairbanks in 2026, her minor degree is in environmental studies. She heard about the Henry Clay Student Congress through an email and immediately applied. She was the student chosen to represent the state of Alaska. For the total program, there were over 500 applicants from across the country.

About 50 people marched to South Peninsula Hospital on Wednesday in response to a federal budget bill that would reduce Medicaid funding. Organizers say the cuts could affect access to care across the southern Kenai Peninsula.

Homer’s Pier One Theatre has been providing youth theatre camps and productions for several decades with many youth attendees as second or third generation participants. Summer 2025 offers several opportunities for youth of all ages and the most recent session about to finish up is “Production and Theatre Skills” with the students performing “Treasure Island” on the Homer Spit stage this weekend.

In September of 2025, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will begin the transplant of deer from the Kodiak Archipelago to coastal land south of Kachemak Bay based on habitat considerations and weather patterns, according to a June press release from the Soldotna Fish and Game office.