KDLL Evening Newscast

Evening News — July 1, 2026

By Ashlyn O'Hara

Published July 1, 2026 at 5:20 PM AKDT

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Scott Griebel resigns from the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly. A Homer man who pleaded guilty to murdering a Homer woman who went missing in 2019 is sentenced to 87 years in prison. Plus, the Sitka Sound Science Center finds a message in a bottle.

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

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