Kenai Peninsula

A volunteer group in Cooper Landing with a fun name and a messy job has been keeping unmanned dump sites on the Kenai Peninsula clean for more than 25 years.

The Kenai Peninsula was rocked to sleep last night by a pair of minor earthquakes.The first, a 4.3-magnitude quake, hit just before 7 p.m. in the Primrose area, near Moose Pass. The second, a 4.7, was just before 11:30 p.m. near Tyonek, on the other side of Cook Inlet.

Nearly 150 wildland fires are actively burning across Alaska. There are no large wildfires in the Kenai area. But smoke from the Interior is blowing down to the region. The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a “moderate” air quality warning for Southcentral Alaska.

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.

Alaska’s in some of its hottest days of the summer yet. But some mushers already have winter on the brain. Saturday was the first day to register for the 2023 Iditarod and 21 are already signed up, including last year’s champion, Brett Sass of Eureka.

A proposed solar farm in Sterling could add to the peninsula's growing portfolio of renewable energy projects.

The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward admitted two abandoned harbor seal pups earlier this month after they were found on a beach in Kasilof.Now, in the center’s care, officials say the pups are growing and eating, and vets hope to release them back to the ocean soon.

What makes Thanksgiving special on the Kenai Peninsula? KBBI asked three residents what makes the holiday meaningful to them.Jeremy Hawk said he’ll take…

A small wildfire was reported Thursday evening around 9.5 mile on East End Road. Kachemak Emergency Services initially responded to the fire directly off…

About 200 Anchorage teachers received pink slips Wednesday after Alaska’s Legislature missed its 90-day deadline to solidify the budget. As uncertainty…