Tight Lines: Peninsula lakes offer early season action

Tight Lines: Peninsula lakes offer early season action

I’m slow to emerge from my cocoon. Especially after the previous day, portaging and paddling through a wind-driven rain, the warmth of my sleeping bag… Continue reading

Tight Lines: Peninsula lakes offer early season action

Senate fisheries act draft begins circulating

The newest version of the Magnuson-Stevens Act out for discussion adds subsistence users and Tribal governments to the fisheries management law and has the potential… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • By Molly Dischner

Assembly compensation talks continue

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly continued to debate assembly member compensation at its meeting in Seward.An ordinance to adjust compensation was up for public hearing… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI

Vermillion murder trial pushed back

The trial for the Cooper Landing man charged with murder has been pushed back at least two months with the defendant’s lawyer admitting it will… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER

Gov handles range of questions in online town hall

JUNEAU — Gov. Sean Parnell said repealing the state’s oil tax system would “kill” oil production.During an online town hall Wednesday evening, he also said… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • By Becky Bohrer

Alaska pot supporters make deal with opponents

ANCHORAGE — The group behind a ballot measure to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Alaska said Wednesday it would gladly contribute funds to… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • By Mark Thiessen

Muskox murder trial pushed back

The trial for the Cooper Landing man charged with murder has been pushed back at least two months with the defendant’s lawyer admitting it will… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER

Suspect’s interview played in Kodiak murder trial

ANCHORAGE — The Coast Guard civilian charged with killing two co-workers at a Kodiak communications station told an FBI agent he was late getting to… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • By Dan Joling

Legislative Information Office hearing schedule for April 17

Thursday 8:00 a.m.The House Special Committee on Fisheries will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 386 Repeal Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission; Transfer Functions To… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2014

Agrium now included in refinery tax credit bill pending in Juneau

JUNEAU – A bill extending state tax credits to oil refineries in the state has been expanded to include the Agrium Corp. fertilizer plant in… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • By Tim Bradner
Caring for the Kenai finalists to make oral presentations Thursday night

Caring for the Kenai finalists to make oral presentations Thursday night

High School students from across the Kenai Peninsula will be competing Thursday for $28,000 in cash awards. This year marks the 24th anniversary of the… Continue reading

Caring for the Kenai finalists to make oral presentations Thursday night
Job Shadow gives KCHS Juniors a look at potential careers

Job Shadow gives KCHS Juniors a look at potential careers

For two decades juniors at Kenai Central High School (KCHS) have been able to take a day out of the classroom and into the work… Continue reading

Job Shadow gives KCHS Juniors a look at potential careers
Stream Watch program gears up for 20th year of helping out rivers

Stream Watch program gears up for 20th year of helping out rivers

Now in its 20th year Stream Watch, founded in 1994 by the Chugach National Forest and a group of concerned citizens, is an award winning… Continue reading

Stream Watch program gears up for 20th year of helping out rivers
Country Foods "Hometown Proud for 30 Years!"

Country Foods “Hometown Proud for 30 Years!”

The hometown turned out in big numbers to celebrate local family owned Country Foods 30th Anniversary last week. There were money saving specials throughout the… Continue reading

Country Foods "Hometown Proud for 30 Years!"
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Nikiski Recreation Center paid for the Nikiski community mural's materials that were used on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, at the Nikiski Recreation Center. Nikiski community mural were funded by

Painting the town

It took a small army to complete the 16-by-28 foot community mural. Nearly 100 eager Nikiski community members filled in the panels over two full-day… Continue reading

  • Apr 15, 2014
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Nikiski Recreation Center paid for the Nikiski community mural's materials that were used on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, at the Nikiski Recreation Center. Nikiski community mural were funded by
Courtesy photo Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association  The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association bought the Port Graham hatchery Monday, shown in this 2013 photo, and has plans to incubate 84 million pink salmon eggs in 2014 at the facility.

Cook Inlet Aquaculture buys defunct Port Graham Hatchery

Pink salmon fishing in the Lower Cook Inlet could soon be revitalized as the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association finalized its purchase of the Port Graham… Continue reading

  • Apr 15, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Courtesy photo Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association  The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association bought the Port Graham hatchery Monday, shown in this 2013 photo, and has plans to incubate 84 million pink salmon eggs in 2014 at the facility.
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Begich speaks at a joint Soldotna and Kenai Chamber Luncheon Tuesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Begich visited the Kenai Peninsula Tuesday to give a congressional update and answered questions about tax reform, oil production in the Arctic and health care.

Begich discusses economic future

Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Begich said he remembers driving through the Kenai Peninsula five years ago, shortly after his election to the U.S. Senate, and… Continue reading

  • Apr 15, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Begich speaks at a joint Soldotna and Kenai Chamber Luncheon Tuesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Begich visited the Kenai Peninsula Tuesday to give a congressional update and answered questions about tax reform, oil production in the Arctic and health care.

House panel advances governor’s pension plan

JUNEAU — The House Finance Committee advanced Gov. Sean Parnell’s plan for addressing the state’s pension obligation Tuesday, but the issue was not yet settled.As… Continue reading

  • Apr 15, 2014
  • By Becky Bohrer

Couple accused of stealing from two non-profits

A Soldotna couple is facing multiple felonies after more than $8,200 was stolen from two organizations with ties to Central Emergency Services. Bank account records… Continue reading

  • Apr 14, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney

School board approves budget, leans heavily on savings

With very little fanfare the Kenai Peninsula Borough Board of Education passed a more than $161,206,000 budget operating budget that leans heavily on unassigned fund… Continue reading

  • Apr 15, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney