Kenai News

My column today is about gasoline prices in Alaska, but I have more questions than answers I'm afraid.

An 18-year-old Kenai man was shot in the leg with a shotgun during an altercation with another man about 9 p.m. Thursday.

Gov. Sean Parnell recently kept an $8.15 million allocation in the fiscal year 2013 capital budget for a transmission line to carry gas to Anchor Point, Homer and Kachemak City.

There will be Memorial Day services in both Kenai and Soldotna this year. In Kenai, the Avenue of Flags will start at 10:30 a.m. at the Kenai Cemetery followed by a memorial at the Leif Hansen Memorial Park in Kenai at 1 p.m. organized by the Kenai American Legion Post 20.

Kahtnu Ventures has appealed the state of Alaska's denial of its application for a Certificate of Need to build an ambulatory surgical center in Kenai.

Anchorage City Clerk Barbara Gruenstein sat in her second-story office shortly before noon Wednesday at City Hall, screening calls on her cellphone.

Located where the Funky Monkey use to be in the C-Plaza along the Spur Highway in Kenai is an all new restaurant called "Playa Azul." Featuring the atmosphere of the Mexican Riviera here on the Kenai Peninsula, "We wanted to bring something a little different for the people here," said owner Pancho Rodriquez.

Two years after a fatal traffic crash that killed a college student on Alaska vacation outside Homer, Alaska State Troopers arrested a Kenai man and charged him with second-degree murder.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is one of 14 Alaska Native tribal health programs to sign an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs that will allow Alaska veterans living in rural communities to seek health care closer to home.

Brent Keene works on his commercial drift-net boat in Kenai before having it towed to Homer for work last week.

With most of the snow gone, and the fish soon to be rolling in, the Kenai Watershed Forum's Stream Watch program is preparing to start its second year on the lower portion of the Kenai River.

A longtime Homer hotelier announced his candidacy Wednesday for the Alaska House of Representatives District 30 seat.

Quinn Dowd, 6, is ready to fly as Batman before the start of Saturday's Alaska Law Enforcement five-kilometer Torch Run for Special Olympics.

A surgeon group denied a certificate of need application to build an ambulatory surgery center in Kenai, Alaska, has appealed the denial, according to a Peninsula Clarion report .

A 48-year-old Kenai man suspected of causing a fatal Alaska crash two years ago has been charged with second-degree murder.

The opportunity for the Mazurek family to play a role in the search for a cure arose last year when... Trips to the state meet are on the line in the next few days for tennis players from Great Falls... Dormady's parents are Janet and Don Dormady of Kenai, Alaska.

A longtime Homer hotelier announced his candidacy Wednesday for the Alaska House of Representatives District 30 seat.

Alaska State Troopers this week charged a driver with second-degree murder for his involvement in a fatal 2010 Memorial Day weekend crash on the Sterling Highway between Homer and Anchor Point.

Twelve years ago this month, my wife Maryna and I were married in Homer. I had just finished a year of bible school at Alaska Bible Institute and Maryna had spent the last 12 years of her life in the mission field with Operation Mobilization.

B.J Altman began his own non-profit charity after discovering something was amiss with his boss' organization, Boxes for Heroes.