Ninilchik News

The Anchor Point natural gas field on the lower part of the Kenai Peninsula may soon start feeding gas into the railbelt system.

An announcement in late September by Enstar Natural Gas Co. and Anchor Point Energy that they plan to connect the North Fork gas field to Anchor Point and then north to the Kachemak-Kenai gas pipeline has raised questions about Enstar's commitment to bring natural gas service to Homer.

Have you ever flown across the country and looked down on all the little cities and towns passing below your feet? Traffic flows by on highways, smoke drifts up from chimneys and lights shine from homes as hundreds of million Americans going about their daily lives.

Even though he had a broken ankle, a Ninilchik man fought off three suspected burglars when they broke into his girlfriend's home and tried to assault him, Alaska State Trooper Michael Henry said in a criminal complaint.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education got some lower-peninsula hospitality on Monday, with a dinner prepared for them by Nikolaevsk School and presentations by Homer Flex and Fireweed Academy at its work session and West Homer Elementary and Chapman School at its regular meeting, both held at Homer High School.

Andrea Cordova and Salty Bock were married in an afternoon ceremony Saturday, July 11, 2009, Moose meadow Cabins in Soldotna.

In the mail today was a 3-by-5 postcard. With big print on small paper, it described how my world will come to an end if I dona t vote for a sales tax increase on food.

Whitney Leman of Ninilchik and Jason Schollenberg of Anchor Point were married Saturday, Aug.

Not going to be around for the upcoming election? Don't want to wait in line at polling stations? Absentee ballots are available to registered voters starting Monday.

The Alzheimer's Resource of Alaska offers The Savvy Caregiver, a six-week, intensive course beginning in mid-September. Join us and learn care giving and coping skills.

A 9-year-old Alaska boy has died after he was dragged several hundred feet by his own cow at the Kenai Peninsula State Fair in Ninilchik.

The Alzheimer's Resource of Alaska offers The Savvy Caregiver, a six-week, intensive course beginning in mid September.

Fairgoers cheer as the Kenai Peninsula Fair racing pigs round the corner and head into the home stretch at the Ninilchik Fairgrounds.

Editor's note: During a recent visit between Homer Staff Writer McKibben Jackinsky and her grandson, Colby Aley, 13, formerly of Alaska and currently a resident of Oregon, the two compared childhood activities that left a mark on their lives.

It might seem that the Kenai Peninsula is starting to wind down, but August is a busy month.

While there are many risky outdoor activities on the Kenai Peninsula, clamming typically isn't one of them.

While there are many risky outdoor activities on the Kenai Peninsula, clamming typically isn't one of them.

What's a fair without a parade? This year -- unlike recent years -- the Kenai Peninsula State Fair doesn't have to answer that question.

A student at Kenai Middle School, Bill Ashwell is 13 years old. Yet he wasn't scared while preparing to mount Get it On, a roughly 2,000-pound bull ready to shake Ashwell's diminutive frame off.

There are minor power outages and then there is what occurred in the Cohoe Loop area on Sunday night, as a blackout lasting more than 12 hours left residents in the dark with freezers full of fish thawing and milk in the fridge souring.