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Funding for Alaska’s schools is always in flux. Questions of budget cuts and school consolidation are never off the table, even for the state’s biggest districts.

Kenai’s local space education center is hosting a series of workshops focused on an earthly issue: food sustainability

The Kenai Community Library is one of 60 U.S. libraries partnering with NASA this year through the NASA@MyLibrary program.The library used some of those grant funds to bring two new additions to its collection. And this week, it celebrated an astronomical milestone in the science world.

For the first time, kindergarten and first-grade students in Anchor Point are learning how to play the violin at school. That’s thanks to the nonprofit Homer OPUS, which expanded its violin program to Chapman Elementary school last month with help from grants from Carnegie Hall, the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation.

The Homer High School Boys Nordic Ski Team won the Division II State Championships at Kincaid Park in Anchorage over the weekend. The six-member team beat out five other Division II schools during the three-day event.

Facing major state budget reductions, Nine Star will shut down its Homer location, redirecting youth employment support to local entities like the Homer Job Center and Kenai Peninsula College.

Spring is finally here! If you are like most people you are probably gearing up for the upcoming gardening season, which means you will most likely visit your local greenhouse for plant starts or potting soil. But have you ever wondered where these items come from?

Jim Maloney performed on KBBI from the Bunnell Street Arts Center, as part of our series Bunnell Arts By Air on Friday, November 19.

Tamara McCoy, piano and voice, and Marcio Candido, violin, performed at Bunnell Street Arts Center on September 17, 2021

The city of Homer is expecting a drill rig with the exploration company Furie to pull into the port Saturday. The city will host the rig after another…