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City crews expect repairs to be done Monday afternoon.

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.

In early 1996, the Homer Fire Department, with a grant from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, collaborated with Homer Safe Kids, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and the Homer School District to establish 15 life jacket loaner stations in communities around Kachemak Bay.

From water main improvements to fish cleaning tables, the 2016 major capital improvement projects in Homer are meant to support a wide range of industries…

In winter months, it's necessary for peninsula residents to get their food from thousands of miles away but growing season is underway and the Alaska Food…

The Kenai Peninsula Food Hub, an online marketplace for locally grown food, went live on Friday.Robbi Mixon, who is coordinating the Food Hub for the…

Wildland fire season has arrived in Southcentral Alaska. An escaped lawn fire destroyed a storage shed on East End Road over the weekend. Called the…

It has now been seven days since Anesha “Duffy” Murnane went missing from Homer. Murnane was last seen leaving her apartment building Thursday, October…

Kachemak Emergency Services were called out in the early hours of March 17 for a death that may or may not have had respiratory complications, but which,…

The Sea Grant “Community Engaged Fellows” program is a national program that was started in 2020, Alaska Sea Grant based out of the University of Alaska Anchorage campus has a cohort of six undergraduate students working across the state of Alaska, particularly in rural communities on projects related to marine coastal sciences. Sea Grant faculty member Davin Holen and two of the students in the 2025 summer program, Deagen Carey and Alex Devon, explained the program and shared some of their experiences with KBBI’s Emilie Springer.