Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Clayton Holland is putting together a team to study and make recommendations about school consolidation. Soldotna City Council members postpone action on a pair of ordinances rezoning a section of riverfront they're eyeing for development. Plus, an educator in Petersburg shares tips for propagating Alaska berries.

Work starts on long-awaited Kenai Spur Highway safety improvements. Plus, the University of Alaska Board of Regents considers striking affirmative action language from the university's personnel policy.

The stretch of road is one of only two ways to get between the two communities and has a higher car crash rate than the statewide average. It also has the second-highest rate of moose collisions in the state.

Henry Knackstedt and Alex Douthit are running for mayor of the City of Kenai. Victoria Askin, Bridgit Grieme and Glenese Pettey are running for seats on the Kenai City Council.

Kenai Peninsula school board members add back millions in budget cuts and new spending. Plus, Alaska democrats speculate whether Mary Peltola will throw her hat in the ring for Alaska governor.

School board members Monday OK’d $1.83 million worth of spending – more than half of the roughly $3 million the district received because of the veto override.

Now, students may apply to serve on the council or a commission even if they don’t live in the city of Kenai. But they must go to school in Kenai. The city will now also consider sophomores, in addition to juniors and seniors.

Mail pickup for Nikiski box holders and post office retail services are available at the Kenai Post Office at 140 Bidarka Street, Monday through Friday from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Identification is required to pick up Nikiski mail.

The deadline to register to vote in Oct. 7 municipal elections this Sunday. An oil spill sends up to 3,500 gallons of oil in the Kodiak Archipelago. Plus, the abrupt closure of the Nikiski Post Office leaves boxholders seeking answers.

A Kenai grand jury indicted 50-year-old Joseph Miller Jr. over what is alleged to be a violent arrest of the wrong person in Kenai. Another former state trooper, Jason Woodruff, also faces a felony assault charge for his own alleged conduct during the same arrest.