Ashlyn O'Hara
ReporterPrior to joining KDLL's news team in May 2024, O'Hara spent nearly four years reporting for the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai. Before that, she was a freelance reporter for The New York Times, a statehouse reporter for the Columbia Missourian and a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. You can reach her at aohara@kdll.org
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City council members killed a proposed cap on the number of guests in a unit and passed a separate resolution removing the $50 fee for the permit Soldotna requires short-term rental operators to obtain. -
Voters approved moving the city’s election day to November, like the Kenai Peninsula Borough and the City of Soldotna have done. The change aligns local elections with state and federal elections. -
Kenai certifies its special election results. Soldotna standardizes its registration policy for short-term rental units. Plus, the Trump administration proposes cuts to the National Park Service.
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The school district wants an inflationary bump to what it got from the borough last year. That still comes with millions in cuts to programs and staff. That’s why others are asking the borough for the maximum funding allowable under state law, also called the ‘cap.’ -
Seward residents advocate for education funding at a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting. Civil rights sue after the Alaska Division of Elections gives voter data to the federal government. Plus, Indigenous residents in northern Alaska are mixed on a pending oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright gives a ringing endorsement for Alaska LNG. A key Alaska Senate committee is out with a new take on the governor’s proposal to cut taxes for the Alaska LNG project. Plus, the University of Alaska Fairbanks prepares to open a planetarium to the public.
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The proposal comes about two weeks after city officials told council members about a need for more city revenue to pay for projects. -
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.
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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.
