KDLL Evening Newscast

Evening Newscast — Aug. 20, 2025

By Ashlyn O'Hara

Published August 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM AKDT

Ways To Subscribe

Apple

Thousands of Kenai Peninsula students return to classrooms for the start of the 2025-2026 school year. Plus, Southeast communities call for government intervention in what they say is a rampant sea otter problem.

KDLL Evening Newscast

Ashlyn O'Hara

Prior 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

See stories by Ashlyn O'Hara