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On this Thursday’s Covid Brief with Kathleen Gustafson, the panel from the City of Homer’s Emergency Operations Center had a lot of new information for…

Veteran Alaska journalist and KBBI news director Laurence Jay Barrett died Thursday, March 17, at his home in Homer. He was 60.

As the 2025 school year begins, Homer High School athletics offer two home games for interested viewers in the first week of the season. Emilie Springer spoke with football and volleyball coaches for details.

Seldovia’s annual summer music festival begins June 18th. Emilie Springer spoke with some of the event coordinators Suzie Stranik and Margie McCord about historical details, changes for this year and other events coming up in Seldovia later this summer.

Homer’s South Peninsula Hospital turns 60 this year. The locally owned and operated nonprofit hospital started in the mid-’50s, before statehood. In the…

Dozens of gillnetting boats powered by motors leave Homer Harbor every year to fish for salmon in the waters of Bristol Bay.This summer, a unique boat joined them: an 80-year-old restored wooden sailboat.

The Cessna 207, operated by Smokey Bay Air, crashed near Nanwalek on the southern peninsula. A second passenger was seriously injured.

The Kenaitze Indian Tribe recently opened their new elder center near their Dena’ina Wellness Center in the heart of Old Town Kenai. Officials say it’s…

Bering Sea trawlers tend to scoop up juvenile halibut in their nets. Commercial and subsistence fishermen in Western Alaska say that doesn't leave enough halibut for them to catch in years when abundance is low.

The Homer-based company Salmon Sisters launched a line of apparel last month that's getting a lot of attention. Hundreds of comments on social media have called their new clothing design “cultural appropriation.” They refer to it as the “Seaworthy” and “Blueberry Dress.” But others call the dress by a different name.