Ninilchik

If the ballot measure passes, residents in the new service area would pay more in property taxes each year to fund recreation services, with an emphasis on the pool at the K-12 school.

Ninilchik voters may get the chance to create their recreation service area after the community’s pool was left on the list of budget cuts approved by Kenai Peninsula school board members earlier this month.

The event was organized by the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District, or KPEDD, and aimed to connect students at small, rural schools to post-graduate opportunities.

Small libraries stand to be hit the hardest, and in some cases, may be forced to close their doors entirely.

A fish passage restoration project will soon bring improvements to the movement and health of a southern Kenai Peninsula salmon population. The Kenai Peninsula Borough and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently entered into a partnership to complete the restoration work.

Troopers say Joshua Brown had meth, cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD and unidentified drugs in his tent at a Salmonfest campsite in Ninilchik.

Thousands flock to Ninilchik each summer for the three-day music festival. But underpinning the whole event is a pro-fish, anti-Pebble Mine message that appears in every aspect of the festival.

Ninilchik is one of the first tribal recipients of the State Small Business Credit Initiative, a program funded by a the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act. The tribe will use the money for investments in engineerings services companies.

Alaska State Troopers say the plane experienced engine trouble and made an emergency landing on the Sterling Highway. Neither the pilot nor passenger were injured.

Community response mixed to short harvest opportunity for razor clams