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Steve Lindbeck is running on the Democratic ticket for Alaska’s sole congressional seat. He’s hoping to unseat Republican incumbent Don Young who has…

This year, fishermen in southeast Alaska will be required to share herring spawning structures. The new restrictions are an attempt to address declining…

This week, Emilie Springer takes on a tour of the Homer Winter Carnival, circa 1977, when the theme was, “Those were the days.” Emilie Springer regularly…

Emilie Springer has this story about an oil spill response exercise taking place in Kachemak Bay this week.

Meyer said the Watershed Forum has been keeping tabs on the health of the river through baseline monitoring since 2000.

The rates of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are rising across the country. But the signs and symptoms of dementia vary widely from person to person, and it can be difficult for family and caregivers to understand the experience. A virtual dementia tour seeks to bridge the divide by putting people in the shoes of someone experiencing dementia.

The phrase “summer camp” usually brings to mind images of toasted marshmallows, campfires and wobbly canoe trips.One thing that you won’t find at a…

Ryan Romer is showing his work at Homer’s Bunnell Street Arts Center this month. His solo exhibition includes, print-making, painting and sculpture mixing…

Last spring, when many Ukrainians were leaving the country, Lucas Wilcox was on his way in. Russia had invaded eastern Ukraine two months earlier. It was mid-April and the 40-year-old Homer resident was on a train traveling from Poland to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Wilcox was traveling into the country with a mission.But what Wilcox didn’t know at the time, was that night on the train from Krakow to Lviv, the Ukrainian city would be hit by its largest missile strike yet.

A Homer resident died in early January in one of the most deadly plane crashes in Nepal in more than three decades. Hari Pariyar was traveling with three other family members on the thirty-minute plane ride from Kathmandu to Pokhara. The plane took a sudden dive less than a mile away from its destination, killing all 72 passengers, including the pilot and crew. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.