The proposal comes about two weeks after city officials told council members about a need for more city revenue to pay for projects.

Crews have already resumed work on the Cooper Landing Bypass Project. Other ongoing projects include the second phase of improvements to the Kenai Spur Highway between Swires and Sports Lake roads.

A new disaster relief assistance program helps Alaska peony farmers purchase new rootstock to replant.

A project to remove an invasive weed from Crescent Lake is running long on expenses, short on money.

The first proposition voters considered amends the city charter to bump Kenai’s regular election day back a month, from the first Tuesday in October to the first Tuesday in November.

An architect with K + A designstudios says the newer building already meets some of the departments’ needs.

The Soldotna City Council considers a half-percent sales tax increase to pay for city projects. The state will end a program that supplies emergency food boxes to Alaskans. Plus, a bill raising Alaska's age of consent is folded into an omnibus crime bill.

The state plans more than a dozen transportation projects around the Kenai Peninsula this summer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a new Office of Seafood. Plus, more than 100 Alaskans take to Washington D.C. to lobby for a variety of state issues.

On today’s episode of the Kenai Conversation, we’re joined by Tess Caswell and her dad, Steve Caswell. Tess is a Soldotna-grown capsule communicator with NASA, currently part of the team supporting the agency’s 10-day Artemis II lunar mission.

Voting for the Homer Electric Association Board of Directors is open April 3 through May 7