Cooper Landing

The donation-funded department received $4,500 from the Seward Community Foundation to buy water rescue equipment.

This summer, Kenaitze Tribe officials say archaeologists and cultural observers found stone tools, animal bones and the impressions of homes along the path of the Sterling Highway bypass project.

Just over a week from the start of the school year, the Moose Pass School was lacking a principal and an instructional aide. The district worked to fill those roles at the last minute, but some worry about larger recruitment issues for small community schools.

The Alaska Department of Transportation says it will have to seek outside funding sources to make up for dramatically increased cost estimates for the bypass project.

The video, viewed tens of thousands of times on Instagram and Facebook, shows four dogs fending off a brown bear in a Cooper Landing backyard.

The Cooper Landing Bypass project manager says a lack of full funding in this year’s legislative budget could mean delays in the major highway project.

The Cooper Landing Bypass project manager says a lack of full funding in this year’s legislative budget could mean delays in the major highway project.

After years of operating as a volunteer-run non-profit on a tight budget, Cooper Landing emergency responders are excited about the possibility of a formal service area. The borough assembly passed a resolution that will allow area residents to decide for themselves.

A long-standing project to make Cooper Landing walkable and bikeable is getting support from the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly.

The board considered nine proposals for trapping setbacks along trails and campgrounds in Homer and Cooper Landing. Only two were adopted.