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A Kenai doctor faces nearly two dozen felony charges in an alleged Medicaid fraud case, the Tustumena ferry is in a Seward shipyard for repairs, and this week marks National Wildlife Refuge Week. Plus, schools around the peninsula get to raise salmon eggs in the classroom.

Consultants provide an update on the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s forthcoming bus system, and jet skiing is banned again in Kachemak Bay.

Congresswoman Mary Peltola hosts a town hall about the proposed Albertsons-Kroger merger, and a man pleads guilty for an illegally hunted moose. Plus, more than 100 students, from elementary age to high school, are putting on the classic musical The Wizard of Oz starting tomorrow at Soldotna High School.

A look at where to cut your own Christmas tree on the central Kenai Peninsula. Plus, an engine manufacturer and the Alaska higher education system partner to create more boat engine technicians.

The Kenai Peninsula’s legislators visited the school board Monday to discuss their legislative priorities related to education. Plus, Alaska Airlines is purchasing another airline in an almost $2 billion deal.

The Kenai Bluff Stabilization project goes out for bid. Plus, a prominent Alaska oil and gas industry expert visited Soldotna this week for a lecture about the dire state of the natural gas market, which balanced analysis, cynicism and humor. And rural Alaska ferries receive $132 million in federal funding.

The Kenai Peninsula School District faces another year with a budget deficit. And, the Homer City Council passes a resolution supporting the continuation of the city’s Harbor Expansion feasibility study. Plus, moose with a rare hoof disorder are most commonly found on the Kenai Peninsula.

Our guest this week is James Hornstein, programmer for the Anchorage International Film Festival.

Just past downtown Soldotna on the Sterling Highway is a thrift option like no other. BuildUp, Inc. is the only organization on the central Kenai Peninsula that takes in and sells second-hand building materials.

Our episode this week features a Kenai Peninsula College Showcase presentation titled "Three in the Far North, Packrafting and Hunting in Arctic Alaska." The presentation follows Ben Meyer, Maura Schumaker and Buck Kunz in their three week journey via packraft down the Sagavanirktok River in Alaska’s Brooks Range.