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Alaska’s State Balladeer announced last week he’s been diagnosed with end-stage cancer.James Varsos, best known to Alaska and the world as “Hobo Jim,”…

Nearly $15,000 in fireworks to be lit starting at 8 p.m. Friday night.

The Homer City Council found themselves in an unusual position this spring — having more money than expected.

There will be a public grief circle for Anesha “Duffy” Murnane on May 18, from 5 until 6:30 P.M. at WKFL Park in Downtown Homer. “This is just an opportunity for people to come together, said spokesperson for Duffy's family," Christina Whiting. “I think just the community feels the weight of this heaviness. I wanted to create a space where people could come together to just collectively hold their grief.”

At Monday's city council meeting, the council introduced ordinance 24-17, which aims to reallocate funds for the purchase of two maintenance vehicles and passes multiple items.

The City of Homer unveiled a newly remodeled park earlier Wednesday, a project that’s been more than a decade in the making.

Each spring, in conjunction with Earth Day, HoWL hosts a week of spring cleaning with DirtBag clean-up week to start off their summer programs. This year the event will take place April 20-24th. Molly Mitchell with HoWL met with KBBI to provide more details about the annual event.

Each Thursday during the Covid-19 crisis KBBI brings you leaders from the Homer Emergency Operations Center to update us on the current status of the…

Steve Schoonmaker, long time Alaska fisherman and participant at the Astoria FisherPoet Gathering shares some of his background in the Alaska industry and the new poem that he plans to read in Astoria at the event taking place next weekend. Emilie Springer spoke with Schoonmaker earlier this week.