Simon Lopez

Four people died in a plane crash in the Kenai Peninsula community of Seldovia Wednesday, state troopers say; the Homer Port and Harbor Advisory Commission wants the city council to leave two parts of the port tariff alone; and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced earlier this month that it would end its support for the Arctic Report Card.

Multiple agencies are responding to a plane crash near Seldovia, according to the Alaska News Source; state officials, the U.S. Coast Guard and one of Alaska’s leading oil and gas producers are investigating the cause and source of a large oily sheen on the west side of Cook Inlet; and Homer Chamber of Commerce completed their 2026 boat raffle, a tradition of the Chamber for 77 years and announced an Anchorage resident as winner.

A University of Hawaii student spent the summer studying why water behaves differently across three Homer watersheds, and one of them helps explain a problem drivers already know well; the Kenai Peninsula Borough held Industry Appreciation Day last Saturday and awarded Homer’s NOMAR as the Outstanding Commercial Fishing Industry Support Business; and state officials, the U.S. Coast Guard and one of Alaska’s leading oil and gas producers are investigating the cause and source of a large oily sheen on the west side of Cook Inlet.

The Homer City Council voted down a special assessment district, postponed funding design work on a trail above Karen Hornaday Park and more at its meeting last night; a University of Hawaii student spent the summer studying why water behaves differently across three Homer watersheds, and one of them helps explain a problem drivers already know well; and the Kenai Peninsula Borough held Industry Appreciation Day last Saturday and awarded Homer’s NOMAR as the Outstanding Commercial Fishing Industry Support Business.

The Homer City Council voted down a special assessment district, postponed funding design work on a trail above Karen Hornaday Park and more at its meeting last night; and appointments for low-cost blood tests at the upcoming Rotary Health Fair in early October open on September 1st.

Appointments for low-cost blood tests at the upcoming Rotary Health Fair in early October open on September 1st; and after more than a year of negotiations, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and its two largest employee unions have hashed out tentative contract agreements.

Eight people died last week, after the charter plane they were flying in crashed on a remote cape in Southwest Alaska; and the Kenai Peninsula Fair gathered visitors from across the state to Ninilchik last weekend for three days of festivities and fun.

The Homer City Council meets Monday at 6 p.m. and will take public testimony on several property and funding measures; and the Kenai Peninsula Fair gathered visitors from across the state to Ninilchik last weekend for three days of festivities and fun.

Homer Airport will be closed to all air traffic overnight through the end of the month for runway light maintenance; Brent Hibbert is returning to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly; and Sterling voters are unlikely to consider increasing property taxes to support community recreation when they head to the voting booth later this year.

Homer Airport will be closed to all air traffic overnight through the end of the month for runway light maintenance; Brent Hibbert is returning to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly; and Sterling voters are unlikely to consider increasing property taxes to support community recreation when they head to the voting booth later this year.