Kenai Peninsula News

Soldotna Public Library marks National Library Card Sign-Up Month with celebration, giveaways, and partnerships.

If approved, the proposal would exempt the first $75,000 of their residential property’s taxable value from the city’s property tax.

Berga will serve until the next election, in which he is also the only candidate running for the seat.

Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly members voted Tuesday to put the question on the ballot for the upcoming municipal election.

This is the first year peninsula voters will cast ballots in November instead of October.

Seventeen gubernatorial candidates and their lieutenant governor running mates appeared on the primary ballot, and results show voters on the central and northern Kenai Peninsula were far from unified on any one ticket.

Seward Middle School was one of four schools Kenai Peninsula school board members voted to close earlier this year to save money.

The onsite joint command says it’s gone several days without seeing any sheen in the area.

Thursday’s announcement comes on the heels of a lackluster sockeye season in the Kenai River, and as the river’s king fishery remains closed outright due to poor runs.

State officials say they still cannot trace the sheen to the nearby oil platform.