Members say it’s tough for them to meet even the bare minimum to hold meetings. Last year, the commission cancelled more than half of its meetings leading up to the work session where they considered sunsetting.

Thirty-six-year-old Kirby Calderwood has accepted a plea deal through which he would serve 87 years in prison. This is a developing story and will be updated.

The library will accept designs Feb. 17 through the end of March. Then, a jury of library board members will review the submissions and winnow them down to three in each category. The public will vote on the finalists and winners will be announced during a celebration of Library Card Signup Week on Sept. 1 at the library.

Aurora Borealis Charter School will welcome ninth and tenth graders to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s first charter high school program next school year.

Sunday’s protest came almost three weeks after immigration officers shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a nurse with a Minneapolis veteran’s hospital. Pretti’s death was captured on cell phone videos and is now the subject of a federal civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Owners say the project, which would be at the base of Mount Iliamna in Lake Clark National Park, continues to gather momentum as they prepare to conduct more site work this year.

A Utah man pleads guilty to second degree murder in the case of a Homer woman who went missing in 2019. The City of Kenai is sunsetting it's Harbor Commission. Alaska has a new federal judge. And, Homer's Porcupine Theater celebrates an anniversary.

Soldotna will hold a library card design contest. Gubernatorial vetoes leave Alaska's construction industry on edge. Plus, the youngest member of a Bethel mushing family starts up the sport this season.

On today’s episode of the Kenai Conversation, we’re airing a talk by Robin West, a retired biologist and 14-year manager of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge about a solo canoe trip he took on the Yukon River.

On today’s episode of the Kenai Conversation, we’re joined by Jason Moan and Diane Campbell, with the Alaska Division of Forestry to talk about all things spruce bark beetles.