Kenai News

State health officials say five people have become ill after drinking raw milk from a Kenai Peninsula farm.

This is only the second time in more than 50 years that the limits have been lowered, KBBI reported .

Thirteen former police officers, state troopers and Department of Corrections employees lost the ability to work in law enforcement in Alaska Tuesday.

Homer High School graduates, from left, Katie Pitzman, Ethan Kizzia, Katie Kirsis and Grant Arseneau march into the gym at the school's commencement ceremony Sunday evening.

The United States Geological Center reported a magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck the Kenai Peninsula area last Thursday.

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.

Warren and Yvonne Snow, of Kenai, had the closest guess of when the ice would go out on the Tanana River in Nenana, which happened at 3:41 p.m. Monday.

A state commission will meet behind closed doors Tuesday in Kenai to decide whether a number of former police officers, troopers and corrections officers should lose their right to wear a badge in Alaska.

Companies build lease positions in an area of obscure geology but intriguing potential near the edge of the Cook Inlet basin The State of Alaska's Cook Inlet areawide lease sale on May 8 saw companies picking up a series of leases along a fairway of land in the southern Kenai Peninsula, north of Kachemak Bay, near the eastern margin of the Cook ... (more)

Josh Holly, of Specialty Excavators, shows Konstantin Reutov, a 16-year-old Kachemak-Selo student, around an excavator on April 30 during the Alaska Construction Career Day at the Soldotna Sports Center in Soldotna.

With the Rideau and Trent-Severn canals poised to reopen this weekend, a three-member review panel will meet this week in a process that could lead to a reduction in Parks Canada's contentious user fee increases for the two waterways.

So what else could she do? About nine months ago, after more than 25 years out of the workforce, the 90-year-old Kenai resident got a job.

In Alaska, our lives revolve around the weather. When it comes to predicting conditions like temperature, snow and rain, the best glimpse into the future comes from climate models.

It was President's Day last year, and the 60-year-old was walking along the Kenai River's south beach in a gale, snow and sand particles whipping against his body.

Police at 10:12 a.m. contacted a 48-year-old man driving on Beluga Place and issued him a summons for driving while license revoked.

Twenty-eight lease tracts were sold with high bids of $419,840 offered by six bidder groups, state Oil and Gas Division Director Bill Barron said.

Southcentral utilities are breathing a little easier about natural gas supplies with Hilcorp Energy saying it can meet demand until 2017 by producing more gas from old wells it took over earlier this year from Marathon Oil.

Dunk the Fuzz raises funds The Homer Police Department is inviting the public to "Dunk the Fuzz," a charity drive for the Homer Special Olympics.

A brown bear killed by Alaska State Troopers Sunday on the Kasilof River's north beach following reports of an attack and other aggressive behavior has tested negative for rabies.

Homer area residents and voters from other areas of the Kenai Peninsula got a two-for-one special Friday with an opportunity to listen to and ask questions of Sen.