Diamond Ridge News

The Kenai Peninsula Borough clerk on Wednesday rejected an application for an initiative petition by the Alliance of Concerned Taxpayers to cap borough revenues.

Andy Hehnlin's "Diamond Ridge Fireweed" shows off his vibrant creativity with color.

The details remain fuzzy, but if the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approves a resolution at its meeting next Tuesday, a contract with the city of Homer to provide fire and emergency services to the Kachemak Emergency Service Area will end July 1. That means a lot more than reassigning equipment and volunteer firefighters and emergency medical ...

By Sunday night, the volcanic plume of steam from Mount Redoubt was floating northward toward Anchorage.

At its Feb. 17 meeting, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly to postpone action for a second time on Ordinance 2009-02, authorizing a five-year extension of the option to lease Ladd Landing between the borough ...

Like the Homer City Council, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly -- and any municipal government getting state funding -- shares some nervousness over lower oil prices and subsequent declining state revenues.

The death of a young Homer teen on the New Year's Eve holiday to a drug overdose has left Homer in shock and classmates shaken at Homer High this first week of 2009.

After a modest break-up, or substorms, remnants of a northern lights display float above the Wrangel-St. Elias Mountains "as another arc low in the north displays colorful nitrogen fringing while gathering ...

Homer Electric Association shut down power briefly at 7 p.m. Monday in a planned outage.

Holy bananarama, Betsteroids! Last weekend's frictionless streets and parking lots tested the nerves of even winter-hardened sourdoughs.

More than $720,000 in cruise ship passenger tax proceeds received by the borough could be appropriated to city of Seward port projects when the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meets Tuesday in Soldotna.