LATEST LOCAL NEWS
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Voters will consider whether to move city elections from October to November. The Kenai Peninsula Borough and the City of Soldotna made the same change after roughly two-thirds of peninsula voters enacted the change through a ballot proposition.
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Through the partnership the company would “facilitate the construction and operation” of at least six liquefied natural gas carriers.
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Building maintenance and upkeep shifted to the city when the building shut its doors. The closure comes as the city has identified a need for major improvements to or reconstruction of its existing public safety building.
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State lawmakers will gavel in for the second half of the 34th Alaska Legislature Tuesday in Juneau.
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Hazardous conditions closed schools, tribal facilities, city services and certain businesses last week.
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Early estimates put the district about $8.5 million in the red if it maintained the same staffing and programs next school year.
KDLL EVENING NEWSCASTS
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A Greek shipping company becomes the latest tentative partner of the Alaska LNG Project. Plus, reporting from the Anchorage Daily News explores the personal stories behind 45 outdoor deaths in Anchorage last year.
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The City of Kenai considers what to do with the now-vacant Challenger Learning Center building. The state takes addiction treatment on the road with a new pilot program. Plus, a Homer choir teacher is recognized for his work in and out of the classroom.
KENAI CONVERSATION
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Retired Kenai attorney looks back at victory, defeat in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill litigation
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The initiative aims to raise awareness about declining king salmon runs within the Kenai watershed.
KDLL FEATURE SHOWS
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Got a gardener on your shopping list? Larry's got ideas for getting a green thumbs up!
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For both the teachers’ union and the support staff union, the district is proposing a three year contract that includes a 2.5% pay raise the first year and a 1% pay raise for each of the next two years. That’s less than what the two unions asked for.
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The market is Soldotna’s prime gathering place for residents in summer. But city officials have long had bigger dreams for that part of town, envisioning a walkable tourism district parallel to the river. But some council members voiced concerns about the limits of the new zone type.
LATEST KENAI PENINSULA NEWS
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Under the nonbinding agreement, Glenfarne would lend Donlin its pipeline expertise and Donlin would buy natural gas from Glenfarne.
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Keeley Boyle and Lester Nelson-Gacal both explore family in their respective projects, for which they each received a $10,000 grant.
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Aurora Borealis Charter School pitched two new grades – ninth and tenth – to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s charter school committee Monday in Soldotna.
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The state issued a call for input on a potential Kenai Peninsula state forest in November.
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Alaska’s junior senator says he was part of a top secret briefing with Trump officials, who outlined a three-phase plan for the United States’ “next steps” in the country: stabilization, economic recovery and transition to free and fair elections.
LATEST NPR NEWS
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More than 30 years ago, a standoff with a white separatist family in Idaho led to federal rules on deadly use of force. Some say Renee Macklin Good's death in Minnesota offers a similar opportunity.
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A cutting edge pan-African HIV vaccine trial lost funding last year when the Trump administration shut down much of foreign aid. The setback was devastating but the researchers refused to give up.
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The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes responds to a Defense Department announcement that it will assume greater control over the military newspaper.
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