Josh Krohn

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District's Board of Education is preparing to advocate for its needs before the Alaska Legislature. For the second summer in a row, ferry trips across the Gulf of Alaska likely won't happen. The Alaska Marine Highway System is cutting back summer service, based on its schedule released last month.

Employees and visitors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory stopped to watch the Aug. 21, 2017, solar eclipse.

Ways To Subscribe Flooding from an ice jam on the Anchor River covered parts of the beach access road off the Old Sterling Highway.

A motorist is being treated for severe hypothermia after their vehicle was found in the Kenai River. Kodiak's largest seafood processing plant has a new owner. Housing is tight on the Kenai Peninsula, especially for renters.

Late last week, power outages left thousands of Homer Electric Association members in the dark, including the region’s South Peninsula Hospital. International shipping and logistics giant Maersk is ceasing operations in Alaska by February. Terminals in Dutch Harbor and Kodiak are on the chopping block. The holiday season wouldn’t be the same without music. That’s why the Soldotna Public Library hosted a mini concert this week featuring an ensemble of local musicians.

Southeast Alaska's commercial golden king crab and Tanner crab fisheries will open on February 17. The Anchorage Museum will launch a new fellowship next year designed to support artists in Alaska and the Circumpolar North.

Municipal recycling as it used to operate on the Kenai Peninsula came to a grinding halt Dec. 11 with the demise of a 33-year-old piece of machinery at the Central Peninsula Landfill in Soldotna. Alaska's harbors need more funding. That's the case Petersburg's harbormaster made to lawmakers on the state seafood task force earlier this month.

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Homer Police arrested 22-year-old Karl Jerry Wickstrom last month and charged him with four offenses related to domestic violence. Alaska State Troopers arrested a Homer man on Wednesday who they say broke into and stole from four homes in a Cooper Landing neighborhood last month.

Necessity is the mother of all innovation. While traditional steel bolts and screws served as reliable solutions for the last century and a half, improvements in building design and metal construction have given rise to small but important innovations in fasteners. Among these innovations are changes in size, materials, finishes, and manufacturing techniques. Here is a look at these innovations, their advantages over traditional fasteners, and their broader impact on construction and manufacturing.