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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gearing up for a three-year, multimillion-dollar investigation into potentially expanding Homer’s harbor. The process is just getting underway, but it’s not too early to be a part of the conversation.

Alaska's Railbelt, powered by natural gas from Cook Inlet, is facing a potential energy shortage as the region's available gas supply continues to dwindle.

The National Weather Service announced it’s changing its marine forecast zones to provide more accurate weather information to the fishermen and boaters who use it.

“We get out and we bring girls together," Gray said. "We have a fun environment in which we inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun experience-based curriculum, which creatively integrates running and physical education into it.”

A contentious battle over books is playing out in Homer. Homer’s Library Advisory Board is deciding what to do with more than 50 children’s books with LGBTQ themes.

The high cost of food and gas adds stress to people's budgets and a challenge to the organizations who offer food and aid programs for the holiday season. Thanksgiving food baskets were distributed over the weekend through the Homer Community Food Pantry at the Homer United Methodist Church. One hundred and ninety-three families signed up to receive baskets this Thanksgiving to make their own meals.

The January course is a collaboration between the Soldotna, Kenai and Homer Police Departments. Already, there is a waitlist of women signed up.

The road reopened to traffic in both directions around 4:30 p.m. Friday.

The people behind National Heritage Areas face constant uncertainty as they wait on reauthorization from congress every 15 years. The staff of Alaska's heritage area are working to ease the process.

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.