Kaylin Holmes

The Alaska House of Representatives is considering a bill that would require adult websites to verify users are 18 or older, and Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer is currently hosting a Canadian sound artist and radio producer through its residency program. During his stay, the artist will create and broadcast audio collages about the city’s landscapes and the ways people connect with them.

A cruise ship will make an impromptu stop in Homer this morning to give its passengers a moment of respite after almost two weeks at sea, springtime in Homer is marked by the return of sandhill cranes and various shorebirds. This year, a local dance school is bringing even more birds to the city with a production of “Swan Lake", and heavy rain drenched hillsides and flooded rivers around Kodiak last week.

The Homer City Council approved resolutions at last night’s [4/22] meeting that established a longevity pay system for city employees and committed funds as part of an application for a federal grant to replace float system’s in the city’s harbor, and to avoid splitting the GOP vote, Begich says he’ll drop out of U.S. House race if Dahlstrom bests him in primary.

Aside from online markets and the occasional shop, there are very few pet store options on the Kenai Peninsula to choose from. But, a new store sells a number of practical and quirky items, and is an enjoyable place to experience, and the Kenai Peninsula Borough has two new policies, one which allows the borough to issue civil trespass orders, and one which clarifies how public records can be accessed.

An Indigenous-led group in Sitka has received an unexpected contribution – two parcels of land on an island just outside of Sitka, and the bears are back in town, according to Anchorage police – who ask that locals give the animals a wide berth as they awaken from hibernation.

The State of Alaska is appealing a decision that brought back a personal watercraft ban in Kachemak Bay waters, and the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly held its meeting in Seward last night, where they commemorated the Seward High School Boys’ Wrestling Team for being state champions.

The City of Seldovia's library will display a new collection and reading room next month, and a Homer-based nonprofit is turning to recycled plastic lumber for a project improving trails in the Homer area.

Persistent outages of weather observation stations across Alaska have caused problems for rural communities, aviators and climatologists for years. Now the Alaska State Legislature is hoping to spur the federal government to do something about it, and a woman was injured in a suspected hit and run in Happy Valley last Tuesday.

The City of Homer has begun its search for a new city manager, and during Kachemak Bay’s extreme low tides this week, a group of curious Homer residents had the opportunity to see and hold marine creatures that normally stay beneath the water.

A third candidate is running for the Alaska State House district that includes the southern Kenai Peninsula and Kasilof, and much of the United States experienced a solar eclipse Monday, an astronomical phenomenon where the moon passes between the earth and the sun and causes temporary darkness. Although the spectacle couldn’t be seen from Alaska, folks in Kenai had the opportunity to experience the eclipse in a different way.