Nikiski News

About halfway through the ascent of Mount Marathon, Brenton Knight knew he was finished.

Most members of the public who testified during the second half of the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act legislative road show in Soldotna on Thursday argued that Alaska gas should benefit Alaskans first, but ...

PROTEST: Residents want access to the area that was closed for security concerns.

Since before statehood, Karen McGahan has frequented Nikishka Beach every summer.

Rick Gilliland's 47th birthday was one to remember. Paralyzed from the chest down, Gilliland took his handcycling skills to the Rocky Mountain Cycling Omnium, a three-day competition in Denver from June 6 to 8. ...

Law enforcement with the Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement shut down a methamphetamine lab in North Kenai on June 13.

There are plenty of reasons to get outside when Alaska's long daylight hours reach their zenith.

FEDERAL RULING: Oil shippers protested fees in 2005 and 2006. Published: June 20th, 2008 01:45 AM Last Modified: June 20th, 2008 01:58 AM Federal pipeline regulators ruled Thursday the owners of the ...

State lawmakers may be leaning toward support for approving a contract with TransCanada Alaska Company to build a gas pipeline from the North Slope into Canada to the Lower 48, Sen.

NO DVD VIEWING OR TEXTING: New rules begin Sept. 1, and violators can be charged with a felony if they hurt or kill someone.

Borough Mayor John Williams has approved paying court-ordered attorney fees to a plaintiff who sued the borough late last year when the assembly failed to seat three incumbents re-elected to their assembly ...

You see, Debbie and Frank Kassik built the brewery right out their front door so they could easily keep their day jobs and run the business at night.

Nikiski export terminal gets extension; DOE says gas supplies adequate On June 3 the U.S. Department of Energy approved two more years of natural gas exports from Alaska's Cook Inlet to Asia.

An initiative petition proposing a seasonal exemption from sales taxes on groceries has been certified by the Kenai Peninsula Borough clerk's office, and signature pamphlets should be hitting the streets ...

U.S. Department of Energy officials have approved an extension of an export license that will allow ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corp.

I stopped by the ATT Sports Center on the Palmer-Wasilla Highway to listen to the public testimony about the Upper Cook Inlet salmon issues.

Shuttering a mammoth industrial plant like the Agrium fertilizer facility in North Kenai is no simple task, but the 50 or so employees and the contractors still working there are striving to complete the job as ...

Central Emergency Services was called to Spirit Lake off Strawberry Road in Kenai at 7:30 p.m. Monday for a possible drowning.

A Kenai man drowned Monday after his canoe capsized on Spirit Lake off Strawberry Road.

The early word from investigators checking out the scene of a big fertilizer spill that happened Friday in wetlands near the Kenai River is promising: no dead fish were spotted during a two-hour inspection of ...