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Pat’’snaiqataruartuq - Starting to get colder Pat’snaiqataruartuq llami awa, unawami taumi akgguarmi.Translation: It is starting to get colder now…

Brazilian musician Eduardo Mendonça began a week-long residency at Fireweed Academy in Homer this week. He’s an award-winning recording artist, vocalist, percussionist, guitarist and musical arranger, who has toured around the world, and he says he’s happy to be back performing and teaching in Alaska.

Alaskans headed to the polls Tuesday to participate in the first ever statewide ranked-choice election.

Student life changed dramatically this semester. There was no preparation or adjustment period. After spring break, schools closed, classes changed, new…

Teachers and administrators are already back to work. They're preparing for students to return to classrooms on August 24. How will schools be able to…

The Homer Soil and Water Conservation District is hosting an ongoing series of classes on soil and seeds just in time for spring planting.

The Homer Theatre kicks off its 18th Annual Documentary Film Festival Thursday night. It marks the culmination of the 2022 Alaska World Arts Festival, which takes place over two weeks every fall. Homer Theatre owners Lynette and Jamie Sutton began putting on DocFest just a few years after purchasing and fixing up the theatre in 2002. They’ve been collaborating with the World Arts Festival since 2020.

If you believe that you may have contracted the monkeypox virus, Carroll encourages consulting and testing with your health care provider or with someone at the Homer Public Health Center. While there are a limited number of the vaccines available statewide, the Homer Public Health Center does have doses of the monkeypox vaccine. They recommend those most at risk to get the two-shot JYNNEOS vaccine. The Homer Public Health Center is the only facility on the Southern Kenai peninsula offering it.

The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward has admitted two new patients to its wildlife rehabilitation program. SeaLife Center staff rescued a young male harbor seal and male sea otter pup in late August and early September, respectively.

A new five-year plan from the NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office lays out institutional values and goals for Alaska fisheries and for working with their many stakeholders. The plan was published in early September. In an opening letter, Regional Administrator Jon Kurland reminds readers that Alaska fisheries produce more than half of the seafood caught in U.S. waters and contribute more than $7 billion to the national economy.