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Jamie Diep/KBBIThree Alaska breweries and wineries are suing the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office director and the Alaska Alcoholic Beverage Control Board over restrictions on offering live entertainment. -
Hope McKenney/KBBIHomer Electric Association’s elections wrapped up last week. Directors are tasked with steering the electric co-op through a potential Cook Inlet gas shortage in the next few years and transitioning to other sources of energy, while keeping rates stable for its 25,000-plus members. KBBI checked in with District 3 incumbent Jim Levine, who will continue to represent the southern Kenai Peninsula on the HEA board.
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Farming in Alaska can be an art as well as a science, being on the edge of land that can be cultivated. But in the last two years, the cost of doing it has increased, stretching farmers.The price for fertilizer has drastically increased in the last year—in some cases, it’s doubled. The price for gasoline and diesel has also climbed across Alaska, which farmers rely on to run equipment and transport crops and livestock. -
Two years in, gun suppliers are still seeing high demand across the U.S. for both firearms and ammunition, driven in part by panic buying from gun owners.At one gun store in Soldotna, spikes in sales often line up with things that are happening thousands of miles away.
