Happy New Year! We are three days in and so far so good. We’ve gained about 18 minutes of daylight already, according to the charts. I haven’t really noticed it, but I’m sure someone or something has.

The Kenai Central boys took third place at the Mountain City Basketball Invitational in Anchorage on Saturday with a 51-28 victory over Kotzebue. The Kardinals, who had a 16-2 lead after the first ...

Americans are changing their minds in record numbers. No, not about politics. People are pretty stubborn about that. And don’t look for Americans to change their minds about what they dislike — taxes, ...

The visiting Kenai River Brown Bears lost 3-2 to the Wisconsin Windigo on Saturday in North American Hockey League play. With the two-game sweep, the Windigo improve to 22-8-1-2 and are in first place ...

Soldotna’s Ariana Cannava and Homer’s Jody Goodrich won the Homer Skiathlon on Friday at Ohlson Mountain just outside of Homer. In the skiathlon, athletes started with a 5-kilometer skate that ...

AUTHOR’S NOTE: The two most deadly years for people on or near Tustumena Lake were 1965 and 1975. This series examines the tragedies of those two years. This chapter describes the final Tustumena ...

The host Soldotna girls and boys basketball teams opened up Northern Lights Conference play Friday by sweeping Kodiak. The SoHi girls are 5-2 after a 53-37 victory over the Bears. SoHi head coach ...

The Kenai River Brown Bears returned from the holiday break with a 5-2 loss to the Wisconsin Windigo on Friday in North American Hockey League play at the Eagle River Sports Arena in Wisconsin. The ...

After a weeklong postponement due to the heavy snowfall in Homer in mid-December, the 125th annual Christmas Bird Count Day held on Dec. 21 saw about average numbers of bird species within the ...

Update Jan. 1: Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday that they’d taken someone into custody in relation to a burglary investigation in Cooper Landing. As of Wednesday evening, the name of the person ...

I completed another impossibly huge task this weekend and made hundreds of wontons by hand to serve our large family I have been hoping my whole life to become the best possible version of myself. I ...

Kenai Peninsula Ice Racing kicked off for the 2025 season with night races and a fireworks show on Tuesday, New Year’s Eve. Normally, racers hit the ice outside the Decanter Inn in Kasilof. Tuesday’s ...