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Homer Electric Association restores power to more than 6,000 customers after strong winds on Wednesday. Amid a spike in federal immigration arrests, Alaskans brainstorm ways to support detainees and their families. Plus, a renaissance fair returns to Homer.

Absentee ballots change the outcome of a Kenai Peninsula school board race. State school board members send a proposed local funding regulation change back to the state. Plus, a popular Homer roadside landmark gets a new home in a community park.

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.

Two hikers suffer non-life-threatening injuries after being attacked by a brown bear in Seward. Plus, Alaska medical providers make sense of conflicting vaccine guidance.

Absentee in-person voting is underway ahead of Oct. 7 municipal elections. Commercial fishing reopens near the Kodiak Archipelago's largest salmon hatchery after and oil spill. Plus, scientists study the long-term impacts of a heatwave on Alaska orca whales.

On today's episode of the Kenai Conversation, we're joined by two members of the Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee.

On this episode of the Kenai Conversation, we're joined by the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank's new executive director, Johna Beech, and Board President Sean O'Reilly.

Preliminary local election results are in. Plus, a new group of state lawmakers asks whether Alaska's workforce is ready for a project like the Alaska LNG pipeline.

The Alaska LNG Project nets another nonbinding agreement with a Japanese utility company. Alaskans will not receive SNAP, or food stamp, benefits for November, according to the state division of public assistance. Plus, Alaskans share subsistence foods with the evacuees from Western Alaska.

Strong winds cause power outages for thousands of Homer Electric Association customers on the central Kenai Peninsula. Plus, teenagers are an increasingly important part of Alaska's workforce.