Fritz Creek News

Highly prized for its beauty, recognized as one of the oldest cultivated ornamental plants, and symbolizing prosperity, wealth and sensuality, the peony is making its presence known in Homer and across the state.

After a jam-packed room full of East End Road residents and business owners reacted at an April 16 public meeting with near universal opposition to a plan to fix the "sag curve" at Fritz Creek, officials from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Utilities have ditched the idea entirely, deciding instead to spend $9 million to improve ...

Homer-area residents looking for a free and easy source of firewood may have hit the jackpot with the announcement this week from the Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor's office of a new program that will deposit loads of logs at a location just outside the city limits.

A wildfire that broke out near Homer on Tuesday evening swelled to 70 acres by this morning and was threatening structures and a subdivision, according to the state Division of Forestry.