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Cooper Landing has some of Alaska's fastest-growing home prices, and NOAA Fisheries releases a new strategic plan for the state. Plus, two marine mammals are rescued at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward.

The large-scale power outages that happened across Soldotna this weekend are connected to the storm in Western Alaska, and a landslide at Barry Arm in Prince William Sound is being closely watched. Plus, absentee voting for KPB municipal elections starts today.

Soldotna’s popular summer concert series is renewed for another three years. Two Alaska writers are honored in Washington, D.C. And law enforcement in Kodiak seize more than $650,000 in a drug bust this weekend.

The art auction is an important fundraiser for the Kenai Art Center. But it has been on pause for the last two years, due to the pandemic.

We interviewed the candidates for KPBSD Board of Education during a live candidate forum at the Soldotna Public Library on Sept. 19. This forum was the fourth in our candidate forum series in partnership with The Peninsula Clarion.

The Kenai Peninsula's weather this summer has been unexpected, and a beluga whale watching event returns this weekend after a two-year hiatus.

Construction of a highway bypass through Cooper Landing could pave the way for walkable and bikeable trails there. And Alaska's wet summer means more power for the Bradley Lake Hydroelectric Plant.

Nikiski is forming an advisory planning commission that will be the largest in the Kenai Peninsula Borough. And Mountain View Elementary gets a week-long visit from a Seward artist.

Early results for Tuesday’s municipal elections show promising leads for incumbents in city and borough elections, as well as for multiple bond packages. And in the community of Nikolaevsk, mounting concerns and fluctuating enrollment have pushed a group of parents and community members to request that the town’s public school be dissolved and replaced by a charter school — by the start of the next academic year.

Federal fisheries managers say they’ve started work on a new salmon management plan for Cook Inlet. And tribes in Kenai and Ninilchik get grants to address opioid misuse in their communities.