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Alaskajournal.com
March 28, 2018
... authors Doug Griffin and Tim Dillon of the Southeast Alaska Municipal Conference and the Kenai Economic Development District, respectively. “… As Alaskan economic development entities, we envision a future where we see more and more headlines telling a positive Alaska-China story.” Touting Gov.
Anchorage Daily News
March 28, 2018
Troopers: Kenai Peninsula man assaulted trooper for 20 minutes before fatal shooting. pencil Author: Zaz ... The Nikolaevsk man killed by a state trooper Saturday in the Kenai Peninsula village assaulted another trooper for 20 minutes before he was shot, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said.
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 28, 2018
A broad look into the health of counties nationwide placed the Kenai Peninsula into the top fifth of boroughs in Alaska. ... The state of Alaska has its own population health initiative going, called Healthy Alaskans 2020, that tracks a set of individual health measures in an effort to improve outcomes for peopleÃâà...
youralaskalink
March 27, 2018
... should be capped and with what specific criteria. A variety of the seven Kenai City Council Member believe that excessive appeals may deter private sector growth and development, among other concerns. Homer, Soldotna and other Alaskan locations have comparable planning and zoning constraints.
KTUU.com
March 27, 2018
KENAI, Alaska (AP) - The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced that several wild sheep and goats have tested positive for a pathogen that has caused respiratory disease in Lower 48 herds. The implications of the bacterium, called M. ovi for short, aren't quite clear yet - but Alaska's sheepÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 27, 2018
NOAA is also forecasting the next three months from April through June 2018 to be warmer and drier than average in parts of Alaska, including the Kenai Peninsula. Those predictions are based on dynamic modeling that take current conditions and model how a variety of factors are likely to shape weatherÃâà...
Anchorage Daily News
March 25, 2018
Alaska State Troopers shot and killed a Nikolaevsk man Saturday evening after he attacked officers, the law enforcement agency said. ... On Saturday afternoon, troopers traveled to the Kenai Peninsula community, northeast of Anchor Point, to investigate a complaint that Nikolai Yakunin, 42, was violatingÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 17, 2018
In this March 9, 2018 photo, Kassidy Stock of the Nikiski Fire Department prepares to dive through a hole in the ice on Island Lake as part of a diving training drill in Nikiski, Alaska. The Nikiski Fire Department is working on getting its ice diving team up to certifications to perform operations on frozen lakes ifÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 15, 2018
Only about half the entries in the juried show were chosen for display and judging, Marion Nelson, vice president of the board for the Kenai Fine Arts Center, said. Judge Mariano Gonzales, a professor of art at the University of Alaska Anchorage, traveled to Kenai to judge the show and select five juror'sÃâà...
La Crosse Tribune
March 15, 2018
Before he passed, David, a former teacher at Central High School, spent several years chronicling his Alaskan adventures, detailed in a new 350-page book, “The 50-Year Summer.” In total, David ... Two years later, Lynne accompanied him for her first trip to Kenai, Alaska, serving as deck hand until 1971.
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 15, 2018
“I had tied a wooly bugger fly, which is really a simply tie to fly” said Atcheson, author of 'Fishing Alaska's Kenai Peninsula: A Complete Angler's Guide,” and a fly fishing instructor at Kenai Peninsula College. “I was out in the lakes with a friend and I caught a fish on a fly that I tied, it was the first one I caughtÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
March 15, 2018
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Tuesday that Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae — often known as M. ovi — have been found in sheep killed last year by hunters in the Talkeetna Mountains area. The bacteria was also found in wild goats in the Kenai Peninsula. The bacteria is not native toÃâà...
KFQD
March 14, 2018
KENAI, Alaska (AP) – The Board of Fisheries meeting in 2020 will be held in the central peninsula area for the first time in 20 years. The Peninsula Clarion reported Saturday that the area's governments and fishermen since 1999 have had to travel to Anchorage for the full Upper Cook Inlet finfish boardÃâà...
KTVA
March 9, 2018
A late-season winter storm that brought more than two-feet of snow to parts of the eastern Kenai Peninsula has created hazardous driving conditions along the Seward Highway and dangerous road ... In King Salmon, Alaska, during the second week in March, there is 18.2 inches of snow on the ground.
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 8, 2018
“I need to understand why people want Alaska so badly, what inspires them about the Last Frontier,” said Kate Devine, a self proclaimed “un-Alaskan” and my proclaimed best friend, who'll be making the trek from New Jersey to Kenai next week to visit. “It's never been a part of my library before.”.
Must Read Alaska (blog)
March 6, 2018
In fact, Andeavor makes nearly all of the fuel used in Alaska except in Southeast. The natural gas likely will be purchased on the international spot market and stored in tanks at Nikiski. The company will also have the ability to sell imported natural gas to customers from the Kenai to Fairbanks. It would be aÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 5, 2018
If the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation builds its planned liquefaction plant and export terminal in Nikiski, its water will come from the city of Kenai, according to the state-owned corporations's present plans for the LNG project, which would bring North Slope natural gas to Nikiski through anÃâà...
Anchorage Press
March 1, 2018
Alaska LNG involves an 800-mile, 42-inch natural gas pipeline built from the North Slope to Nikiski, on the Kenai Peninsula, where a large gas liquefaction plant would be built. The project also ... Alaskan entities will be given a first chance at investing in the initial solicitation, Meyer said. Meanwhile, talksÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 1, 2018
Clayton Koroll, left, and Peter Anderson, juniors at Kenai Central High School, shadow Luke Thibodeau, owner of The Flats Bistro in Kenai, on Wednesday as part of the job shadow program through the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and the Alaska Job Center in Kenai. Koroll and Anderson both want toÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 1, 2018
A salmon leaps above the surface of the Kenai River as it makes its way upstream near Centennial Park on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Elizabeth ... The city of Kenai and the Kenai Chamber of Commerce have obtained a permit for their second annual silver salmon derby.
Kenai Peninsula Online
February 26, 2018
Owen Huff, a third-grader at Aurora Borealis School in Kenai, holds up the salmon he caught while ice fishing on Sport Lake on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018 near Soldotna, Alaska. Huff and more than 250 other elementary school students from around the central Kenai Peninsula dropped some fishing linesÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
February 14, 2018
About 1.86 million people visited Alaska in summer 2016, more than double the state's population, according to the report. On the Kenai Peninsula, most people were headed to Homer and Seward, though a major percentage was headed for Kenai and Soldotna. About a third of the visitors to Kenai andÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
February 12, 2018
Tucker, who has been with the Kenai department for four years, began his Alaska career in 2002 at the North Pole Fire Station and worked at Soldotna's Central Emergency Services before taking over at Kenai. He has taken on leadership roles in several firefighter associations, including serving as the viceÃâà...
Platts
February 5, 2018
Andeavor has acquired ConocoPhillips' mothballed Kenai LNG plant in Alaska and expects to use the facilities to support operations at its nearby refinery, ... "This acquisition further strengthens our integrated value chain by optimizing our operations in Kenai and providing low-cost fuel for our refinery toÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 5, 2018
Homer Woman Charged With Using Fake Money on Kenai Peninsula. A 24-year-old ... ANCHOR POINT, Alaska (AP) — A 24-year-old Homer woman was charged with felony and misdemeanor forgery after Alaska State Troopers determined she had passed fake currency at Kenai Peninsula businesses.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
December 31, 1999
KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The University of Alaska is diving into broad social issues tied to salmon, with the hope of finding solutions to longstanding ... rural Alaskans losing access to fisheries, co-management of fisheries between the state and Alaska Native groups and salmon habitat protections issues.
Seattle Times
December 31, 1999
KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The Board of Fisheries meeting in 2020 will be held in the central peninsula area for the first time in 20 years. The Peninsula Clarion reported Saturday that the area's governments and fishermen since 1999 have had to travel to Anchorage for the full Upper Cook Inlet finfish boardÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
December 31, 1999
A massive snowstorm that blanketed the Kenai Peninsula from Seward to Girdwood triggered an urgent warning from avalanche forecasters. ... is in effect from 4 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Sunday for Turnagain Pass and areas around eastern Turnagain Arm, including the Kenai and Western Chugach mountains.
Alaska Dispatch News
December 31, 1999
Update, 6:30 a.m. Friday: A winter storm warning remained in effect on Friday for areas south of Anchorage, from Girdwood to Seward, with up to a foot of additional snow accumulation and gusty winds. "Winds gusting as high as 30 mph will cause areas of blowing and drifting snow," the weather serviceÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
December 31, 1999
KENAI, Alaska (AP) — With only 20 burial plots remaining, the Kenai city's cemetery will have to expand, according to city officials. The city council on Wednesday appropriated funding for an engineering firm to develop a work plan for the expansion. The nearly 10-acre cemetery will expand to a 4-acreÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
December 31, 1999
An eagle perches in the nest overseen by the city of Kenai's streaming Eagle Cam on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 in Kenai, Alaska. The camera — located on the property of a Kenai resident who remains anonymous to protect the eagles from harassment — streamed online for the first time last July, drawingÃâà...
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