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Heading into the current budget cycle, the district faced a $17 million deficit if it wanted to offer the same level of programs and staffing it did for the current school year. So, the budget passed last month closes Sterling Elementary to cut costs.

Demonstrators gathered to commemorate workers rights and speak out against the Trump administration’s actions, which some rally-goers say will impact labor unions.

More than 300 demonstrators, and a few counter-protesters, lined the sidewalks of Soldotna Saturday as part of a nationwide day of protest. The group rallied against the Trump administration's actions, from Elon Musk’s involvement in the federal government to newly imposed tariffs.

The Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area estimates 32 Forest Service employees were laid off from the Chugach National Forest.

Their concerns ranged from federal overreach, to Constitutional violations, to jobs for federal workers.

Just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Monday, three protesters gathered near a conservative Soldotna social club that doubles as a coffee shop to show their disapproval. The brief protest got mixed reactions from bystanders.

The deadline for the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for an estimated 3.5 million federal workers is today. On the Kenai Peninsula, that mandate…

About three hundred people lined the Sterling Highway on Saturday afternoon, peacefully protesting police brutality. But peacefully doesn’t mean…

Close to 100, rainbow-bedecked people walked from the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex to Soldotna Creek Park Saturday afternoon as part of the Two…