The Alaska Board of Fisheries held a multi-day meeting last month to discuss proposals changing fishing regulations in lower Cook Inlet.

The Board of Fisheries will meet at the end of the month to discuss over forty proposals for fishing in the Lower Cook Inlet.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly held their only November meeting last night.

Seward residents may see increased utility bills after voting down the second electric utility sale of the year.

A $250,000 project to extend the Purple Heart Trail in Alaska makes it the one of the longest trails in the country.

Living in Alaska means living with the unexpected, whether it be an emergency, accident or natural disaster. Being prepared for the unpredictable is the goal of a new year-long series of emergency preparedness events, hosted by the Seldovia Village Tribe.

More than $12 million in federal funds will go toward projects in Homer, Seldovia and Seward.

Homer News editor and reporter Michael Armstrong is retiring Friday after more than 23 years with the paper. Armstrong made his way to Alaska from Florida four decades ago, and in May of 1999, he started working at the Homer News as an editorial assistant, typing letters to the editor, compiling Town Crier and Cops and Courts, and working the front desk taking classified ads, subscription orders and rolling quarters. He became a reporter for the paper in 2003 and then its editor in 2017.

The road reopened to traffic in both directions around 4:30 p.m. Friday.

The January course is a collaboration between the Soldotna, Kenai and Homer Police Departments. Already, there is a waitlist of women signed up.