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The Homer Council on the Arts holds the Community Arts Awards each year to celebrate the talented artists who call Homer home and their contributions to the community. The council announced this year's recipients late last month, marking nearly two decades since its first awards ceremony.

On the silhouette wall on Pioneer Avenue, there is a diminutive figure raising her hands to summon artists to action and excellence. That’s Mary Epperson:…

It was a big spring for Alaska’s unofficial state bird.Erin Lockwood certainly noticed more mosquitoes than usual at her house in Kenai. And she found it perplexing.

The Homer City Council has a new budget cycle that’s about to begin. The council voted last year to align the city’s fiscal year with that of the state,…

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.

The reserve’s series of public lectures and hands-on demonstrations cover a different topic each month, like tide pool invertebrates, volcanoes and earthquakes along the Ring of Fire. This month, Bentz said, her organization chose the watershed workshop because of how many researchers studying local watersheds happened to be in town.

Join Lyn Maslow from Friends of the Homer Public Library in celebrating the 2021 Lifelong Learners, Deb Lowney and Larry Dunn.You'll hear from the…

The ice is gone from the beaches of Kachemak Bay and the bike trails are clear, so with the decent weather over the weekend, scores, if not hundreds of…

Homer’s mayor has thrown his hat in the ring for a third term at the head of city government. Mayor Ken Castner has held the seat since 2018. He filed to run for another two-year term on Monday.

Fishing for kings on the Kenai River is again off limits this month. It’s the third year in a row the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed the fishery early amid low king salmon counts.The closure also means set-netters who fish the east side of Cook Inlet are no longer allowed to fish this season. Their fishery closes when king counts are down.