KENAI, Alaska (AP) — For members of the military, especially those deployed overseas, vacations can be few and far between. That's where organizations like the Kenai River Foundation have stepped...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Country musician Zac Brown has lost a bid to limit snoopers on his private property in Alaska, the latest case where the desires of the wealthy or celebrity for privacy have...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — A wildlife monitoring group is seeking citizen scientists to help track beluga whales off the Alaska coast, officials said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say two men drowned in a canoeing accident on a river on the Kenai Peninsula.

The bodies of 57-year-old Harold Crossett and 64-year-old Reuben...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — On Thursday nights, Maya Johnson can be found getting her horse geared up for a game of polocrosse. Johnson first heard of the team sport — a combination of polo and lacrosse...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Two commercial buildings were evacuated in Kenai Friday morning after a natural gas line was cut by an excavator.

Radio station KSRM reports the Kenai Fire Department...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Kenai police searching a river have recovered a gun believed to be connected to the shooting deaths of a woman and her daughter.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Prosecutors suspect a Kenai woman and her daughter may have been killed over a drug debt.

Anchorage television station KTVA reports 25-year-old Masonn Byrd is...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — A 25-year-old Kenai man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of a woman and her mother at a home on the city's north side.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Two women found shot to death at a Kenai home were a mother and daughter.

The Peninsula Clarion reports Kenai police identified the women killed as 60-year-old Rachelle...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Police in Kenai say two women who were shot and killed may have known the suspect.

The Peninsula Clarion reports the women were found dead Sunday morning inside a home...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Police are looking for a suspect in the shooting deaths of two women in Alaska.

The Anchorage Daily News reports that police have not identified the victims of the...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A young woman from China drowned while swimming in an Alaska river.

Alaska State Troopers say 18-year-old Yanting Jin died Monday night. Her hometown was not...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska officials closed some forest lands to all uses as a wildfire approached the Chugach National Forest, a report said.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — A Kenai Peninsula Borough assemblyman plans to introduce an ordinance that could end invocations at assembly meetings, which last month included one offered by a member of the...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Meteorologists say a new wave of hot, dry weather is expected to fuel a wildfire burning on the Kenai Peninsula, and continued smoke and record-breaking temperatures are...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Tinderbox conditions in Alaska forests and a forecast of more hot weather led the state fire marshal to ban fireworks in most populated areas in the run-up to the Fourth...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Drivers using a highway on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula were warned to expect long delays from a wildfire that has sent smoke into the state's largest city.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on a wildfire on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula (all times local):

9:45 a.m.

Alaska wildfire officials are warning drivers to expect long delays on a...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers have released the names of two Michigan residents killed in a weekend small airplane crash on the Kenai (KEE-neye) Peninsula.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska summer baseball squad is threatened by financial troubles, officials said.

The Peninsula Oilers summer collegiate baseball team is in jeopardy as it struggles...

SOLDOTNA, Alaska (AP) — A Satanic Temple member who won the right to open a regional Alaska government meeting declared "Hail Satan" during her first invocation, prompting about a dozen officials...

HOMER, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska school district has lost 86 staff members and administrators so far this year because of resignation, redundancy or retirement, officials said.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — A 13-year-old Kenai Peninsula girl died in a crash of an all-terrain vehicle.

Kenai radio station KSRM reports Tori Verba died early Monday night.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Heightened, potentially dangerous amounts of bacteria have been detected at an Alaska beach, state environmental officials said.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Members of the Alaska hospitality industry have spoken out against a proposed bed tax, a report said.

Hospitality property operators on Kenai Peninsula spoke against the...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is providing funds to the state to help address an accelerating spread of spruce bark beetles.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Officials with two labor unions say a strike is possible after negotiations with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District deteriorated.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Two Alaska school employee associations have rejected contract proposals from their district, officials said.

The Kenai Peninsula Education Association and the Kenai...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the takeover of a prison wing at an Alaska prison (all times local):

1:05 p.m.

The Alaska Department of Corrections says prisoners caused an...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska court system is working to switch to electronic filing, with goals of reducing workloads for clerks, eliminating delays and improving access to records.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The city of Kenai has rejected changing local rules to permit onsite use of marijuana at authorized locations.

City Attorney Scott Bloom says further action would be...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Alaska transportation officials say they are closing a water drainage site on the Seward Highway that's become a popular water collection spout for motorists.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The fate of a bond issue for a field house in Soldotna remains unsettled, with votes still to be counted following a recent election.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Early-run king salmon in the Kenai River can be caught but not kept this summer.

The Anchorage Daily News reports the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is anticipating low returns and on Thursday announced restrictions for both the Kenai and Kasilof (kah-SEE-lawf) rivers.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Soldotna's public works director says a design is "95 percent complete" on a proposed field house.

Kyle Kornelis says planners will await taking additional steps until they see the outcome of a special election March 5.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — A new publisher is leading both the Homer News and the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai.

Sound Publishing Inc., which owns both newspapers, appointed Jeff Hayden as publisher. He started his post Monday.

Terry Ward, regional publisher and Sound Publishing vice president, says he's pleased to put the newspapers in Hayden's capable hands. He says Hayden "has a deep-rooted desire to help local businesses with their marketing and a passion for community journalism."

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Near Anchorage's Ship Creek, a new bronze statue of an elder named Olga, a Dena'ina matriarch from the village of Eklutna, stands and overlooks land that was once a prosperous Native fish camp.

Soldotna artist Joel Isaak, who is Dena'ina himself, worked on the statue for two and a half years. He said he doesn't take the opportunity to represent his culture through art lightly.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Police say an Alaska woman was injured after a handgun was accidentally fired inside a coffee shop on the Kenai Peninsula.

Soldotna Police Lt. Duane Kant tells the Anchorage Daily News that a group of friends was meeting at the Soldotna shop Sunday and was passing around a pistol that a 76-year-old Kenai man had recently purchased.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Construction crews working on a remodel of the Kenai Municipal Airport have discovered a mural created by students more than four decades ago.

The mural was designed and painted in the spring of 1977 by Kenai Central High School students from an advanced art class, the Peninsula Clarion reported . The class was taught by the late teacher, Renae Larson.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — City officials in a Kenai Peninsula community are deciding whether to ban the use of cellphones and other hand-held devices for people driving in school zones.

The Alaska Legislature last year gave cities the ability to regulate the use of cellphones for motorists in active school zones and on school property, the Peninsula Clarion reported .

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Kenai man who threatened to kill a state judge's family has been convicted in federal court of mailing a threatening communication.

Steven Bachmeier faces up to five years in prison. He will be sentenced April 2.

U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder in announcement of the case did not name the state Superior Court judge.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The list of people signed up to deliver invocations to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly includes Christian pastors, atheists and a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a story Dec. 28 about a home explosion near Anchor Point, Alaska, The Associated Press erroneously cited the name of the Kenai radio station. The station is KSRM, not KRSM.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Home explodes near Anchor Point, closes Sterling Highway

An explosion on the southern Kenai Peninsula destroyed a home and sent debris onto the Sterling Highway

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game says it will again ban the catching of razor clams on the Cook Inlet side of Kenai Peninsula.

The Peninsula Clarion reports sport and personal clamming will be banned in 2019.

The department is closing the east side of the inlet to encourage recovery of the clams.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Officials on the Kenai Peninsula are examining what effects port cities might see from a federal court decision on the use of cruise ship passenger fees.

U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland ruled earlier this month that Juneau can keep collecting the fees, but their use must benefit the cruise ships, the Peninsula Clarion reported this week.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is leading cleanup efforts after a fishing vessel sank in a harbor in southern Alaska, releasing an unknown amount of marine diesel and other petroleum products.

The 71-foot (22-meter) Nordic Viking boat sank for unknown reasons last week in Seward Harbor, the Peninsula Clarion reported Sunday.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District performed admirably after southcentral Alaska's magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Nov. 30, according to the borough mayor.

Charlie Pierce, however, said there was room for improvement by the borough administration, the Peninsula Clarion reported .

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The city of Soldotna is planning a special election March 9 to seek voter backing for construction of a field house.

The Peninsula Clarion reports voters will be asked if the city should issue $10 million bond in bonds and increase sales tax by a half percent.

The cost of a field house is estimated at $11.8 million.

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — State Rep. Gary Knopp will not be part of any majority party in the Alaska House's upcoming session.

KINY radio reports the Kenai Republican announced Saturday that he is parting with the GOP caucus in hopes of forcing a consensus among lawmakers.

Knopp's decision leaves the Republicans and Democrats in the House in a 20-20 split.