homelessness

Police Chief David Ross said the statutes were vaguely defined or no longer enforceable, and "don’t meet a good legal standard."

The three code items are outdated, unenforceable and could possibly now violate individual rights, according to Kenai Police Chief David Ross.

The Nikiski Shelter of Hope opened in Dec. 2021, with space for 22 clients. Clients have come from as far as Homer and Seward, said Love INC Executive Director Leslie Rohr.

Rentals are getting both more expensive and harder to find on the central Kenai Peninsula. For programs like Love, INC, that means that not only are they facing longer queues of people asking for help, they're also not able to help as many.

Past the tables of small shampoo bottles, glossy brochures and knitted hats, Shannon Schjoll is working on a client with a pair of hair scissors.Schjoll…

A Nikiski homeless shelter that has been years in the making opened late last month and is now taking in new clients."We had our first person right after…

A coalition of peninsula nonprofits purchased a 22-bed building in Nikiski to turn it into a homeless shelter and hope to get it up and running before the…

A coalition of nonprofits has been working toward creating an emergency shelter on the central peninsula for a while. But until recently, their idea has…

A team of advocates has drafted a list of priorities and strategies for addressing homelessness on the Kenai Peninsula. Now, it’s looking for community…

The central Kenai Peninsula could soon have a functional cold-weather shelter — a long-awaited step in a years-long effort to secure emergency housing for…