Ashlyn O'Hara

If it’s built, the full pipeline project would move natural gas from the North Slope to Nikiski, where it'd be prepared for shipment overseas.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough will pay an Anchorage firm $383,436 to study the refurbishment and potential consolidation of some Soldotna-area schools. The move is the latest effort to advance work on a $65.5 million school maintenance bond approved by Kenai Peninsula voters more than two years ago.

This year, the borough got more than $400,000 from the state to distribute across 26 peninsula communities. That amount is comparable to recent years. After deducting a 2% administrative fee, that pencils out to almost $16,000 per community. The borough held a series of community meetings to determine areas' priorities. Awardees vary in their purpose, membership and reach.

The City of Kenai accepted nearly $80,000 in fishery disaster money last week.

Most of the money is coming from the east side setnet fishery’s 2018 season and the 2020 Upper Cook Inlet salmon fishery season.

Alaska's state-run development agency has OK'd a $50 million backstop for the 's next step. The money will act as a sort of insurance policy for whichever company might take on the work.

A bunkhouse at the Silvertip Maintenance Station and communication upgrades to the Seward Highway between Hope and Turnagain Arm are among the Kenai Peninsula projects funded in Gov.

Lawana Barker is also charged with misconduct involving a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence and theft.

When the owner of a prominent Soldotna RV and mobile home park handed down dozens of eviction notices last year, it laid bare some of the challenges faced by some of the area's most vulnerable residents.

Ways To Subscribe People will have to pay a little bit more to stay overnight in Soldotna come Jan. 1. That's when the city's new 4% lodging tax takes effect.