Kachemak News

Photo courtesy of Homer Halibut Derby Homer's Thomas Youngblood, right, took the Homer Halibut Derby lead with this 354.6-pound halibut caught Friday, June 26, 2009.

Summer officially arrived in Alaska at 9:45 p.m. Saturday, and all southern Kenai Peninsula residents know what that means: Summer's almost gone.

Photo courtesy of Homer Halibut Derb / Photo courtesy of Homer Halibut Derby Homer's Thomas Youngblood, right, took the Homer Halibut Derby lead with this 354.6-pound halibut caught Friday, June 26, 2009.

Fishermen try to mend their nets, clean them and store them properly to extend the life of these tools of their trade, but over time some nets will inevitably have to be replaced.

In a lengthy meeting dominated by discussions of finances and responsible spending, the Homer City City Council voted Monday night to pass an ordinance that would allow the city to spend $5,000 to educate voters on an upcoming ballot measure regarding city sales tax on food.

Firefighters over the Memorial Day weekend demobilized from the Mile 17 East End Road fire.

Commencement ceremonies in Razdolna, Kachemak Selo and Voznesenka marked the first high school graduation events on the southern half of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Tuesday.

Fire is no respecter of person. Some lose their homes. Some have to leave their homes.

Helped by cool weather, the Homer-area wildfire did not grow overnight, fire officials said.

A 70-acre wildland fire that had quieted down Tuesday night flared up Wednesday afternoon, increasing to 100 acres and threatening about 40 homes in the Jones Road and Falls Creek Road area about Mile 17 East End Road.

The wildfire east of Homer spread to 1,200 acres by this morning and was being upgraded to a Type 1 fire, meaning national crews could be brought in to fight it.

Homer Fire Department, Kachemak Emergency Services, and the Alaska State Division of Forestry responded to a wildfire burning on the south side of Mile 17 of the East End Rd Tuesday evening.

An accused drunk driver escaped from an Alaska State Trooper last Tuesday after he drove his 2007 Chevrolet pickup truck over a steep embankment on the Kachemak Selo switchback trail at the end of East End Road.

In what Rep. Paul Seaton, R-Homer, called "the most calm adjournment since I have been in the Legislature," the first half of the 26th Legislature came to an end Sunday.

After securing approval last week from the Kenai Peninsula School Board for a waiver that would let them play for Homer High School, a group of hockey players from the Russian Old Believer villages of Voznesenka, Razdolna and Kachemak-Selo suffered a setback Monday in Anchorage when representatives from the Alaska School Activities Association's 16 ...

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade, and when a big mother of a volcano dumps a few trillion tons of ash on ya, you make, uh, scouring powder.

The details remain fuzzy, but if the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approves a resolution at its meeting next Tuesday, a contract with the city of Homer to provide fire and emergency services to the Kachemak Emergency Service Area will end July 1. That means a lot more than reassigning equipment and volunteer firefighters and emergency medical ...

Falling overboard is a leading cause of death in the most dangerous occupation - commercial fishing.

It wasn't a case of teachers keeping students longer at school. It was just the opposite for an opportunity to compete in the recent 17th annual Career and Technical Student Organization Conference held at Homer High School.

The National Transportation Safety Board last week released its factual report on the Jan.