Kenai News

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge managers are keeping their eyes on a small wildland fire just north of Tustumena Lake.

Kenai now has rules in writing dictating how and when the public will be notified about business to come before the city council.

Independence Day festivities begin early and run all day in Kenai on Saturday. The day kicks off with a breakfast, sponsored by the Rotary Club, from 8 to 10:30 a.m. on the green strip on Main Street Loop in Kenai.

Each year the Fourth of July adds another candle to America's birthday cake; however, it also signifies the most popular day of the year for reported U.S. fires.

Alaska Congressman Don Young says he's attending the Kenai Classic Banquet. The banquet is a popular fundraising event for the Kenai River Sportsfishing Association and its programs to safeguard one of the state's premier rivers.

With the approval of the city council tonight, Kenai will be getting a new city attorney to replace retiring Cary Graves.

A dozen white motor homes clogged the Kenai Holiday gas station parking lot Monday morning, giving locals a rare glimpse at the kind of caravan that has been conspicuously missing from the summertime scene so far this year.

As summer progresses, many flowers will soon be going to seed, but not all that smells pleasant and looks pretty should be allowed to propagate.

Sarah Washburn and Steven Strouf of Soldotna plan to marry Saturday, July 25, 2009, in an afternoon outdoor ceremony at the home of the bride-to-be's mother.

A party got a little out of hand early Sunday morning when a Kenai man was accidentally shot in the lower leg.

A second straight year of weak king salmon returns around the rim of the Gulf of Alaska has state fisheries biologists wondering if they might be staring into the face of a bleak future.

A call from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities' garage off the Sterling Highway, south of Soldotna, led to an inferno that required firefighters from two departments to work together for nearly an hour to get it out.

This is what Charley Michel had been missing. Michel came from the back of the pack with four laps to go on Friday night to win the B-Stock Main Event in the Sprint Car Invitational at Twin Cities Raceway put on by the Kenai Peninsula Racing Lions Circle Track Division.

When many people think of quilts the image that comes to mind is something warm to curl up under during the cold weather months, but on the Kenai Peninsula quilting is far too popular to be restricted to just the winter.

Joe Camel is expected once again to be in the spotlight during tonight's Kenai City Council meeting when a public hearing is scheduled on an ordinance designed to put a little muscle in the city's cigarette smoking regulations.

If favorable weather persists, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is planning to continue implementation of the Lily Lake prescribed fire project, possibly as early as the end of this week or early next week.

This summer has had no shortage of hot and dry days, and while this weather is good for recreational opportunities, it poses a severe risk, should a wildfire ignite.

To prevent the build-up of salmon carcasses on the Russian River, the Russian River Interagency Coordination Group is asking anglers to carry their fish out whole .

One of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough's most popular streams will be closed to king salmon fishing because of poor returns.

Like the salmon that trickle into the rivers and the RVs that arrive in caravans, another staple of summer is the return of the Kenai River Festival, which takes place this weekend on the banks of the Kenai River at Soldotna Creek Park.