Kenai News

Residents of Alaska's largest city are making a run on products to keep the high number of mosquitoes in the area at bay.

Central Emergency Services and Alaska State Troopers responded Monday morning to a two-vehicle rollover and vehicle fire on Kalifornsky Beach Road.

Each spring, it seems, the air of Alaska is filled with the buzz of mosquitoes and the whines of people declaring that this is undoubtedly the worst bug season they've ever experienced in their umpteen years in the far north.

The two boys climbed out of their cockpits, onto a yellow wing and back onto the tarmac where the World War II era plane sat under a blue sky.

Chris DesOrmeaux plays with his daughter Makenna and son Kaiser at the Soldotna Elementary School park on May 1 in Soldotna.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow morning as usual: After coffee and a little breakfast you decide it's time to check the mail and do some other errands about town.

Business leaders from the central Kenai Peninsula heard from the Pebble Ltd. Partnership during a joint Kenai and Soldotna Chamber of Commerce luncheon June 5. Matthew Fagnani, Pebble's vice president of business development, spoke for about an hour about the proposed mining project, its benefits and what detractors say on the potential harm of ... (more)

Mail found in boxes around the borough last week included a national lobbyist take on the upcoming anadromous stream ordinance public hearing.

"I think it's a genetic thing," says Sharon Friesen Schulz with a smile. "My mother, daughter and I are all singers and songwriters."

The National Park Service has named the head of Kenai Fjords National Park as the next superintendent of Glacier National Park.

Re: the call to repeal Ord. 2011-12. Wasn't it interesting to receive the mailed flyers recommending the repeal of Ord.

At 2 p.m. on June 9, the Soldotna Public Safety Communication Center received multiple 911 calls reporting a head-on collision near Milepost 19 of East End Road.

It is almost time to strut your mutt Homer Animal Friends' 14th-annual Strut Your Mutt will take place from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, June 29. It will be held at the city park at the corner of Sterling Highway and Pioneer Avenue, just west of Homer Veterinary Clinic.

HOMER TRIBUNE /File Photo - A fisherman tries his luck on the Anchor River. An ordinance poised to increase protections for salmon stream and lakes in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, and increase restrictions for some property owners along them, will go to a public hearing on June 18. After years of debate, discussion and analysis, an ordinance poised ... (more)

A man who lived in the trailer experienced second-degree burns on his hand when he tried to extinguish the fire with a garden hose, he said.

KENAI, Alaska - Every time he was asked "are you sure you want to move to the next step?" Chris DesOrmeaux's answer was always "yes."

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement plans.

Some boaters on the Rideau and Trent-Severn waterways are furious after learning that Parks Canada is proceeding with plans for steep increases in mooring fees despite a three-year freeze on lockage fees announced last month.

From the Peninsula Clarion : Months of debate over a proposal to let Kenai residents keep up to a dozen chickens in their backyards without the need for a special permit ended Wednesday.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has signed legislation that could provide significant relief to diligent oil and gas companies facing the loss of expiring state leases.