Homer, AKLat / Lon: 59.6425°N / 151.5483°W
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 01/22/10 The Financial Times writes extensively about US President Barack Obama's planned reforms intended, in part, to ensure that banks do not in future become too big to fail.
 01/17/10 ANCHORAGE - Rural Alaska Community Action Program Inc. (RurAL CAP) announced that in a unanimous vote of the Board, Juneau resident Andrew Ebona was recently re-elected president of the Board of Directors for the fourth consecutive year.
 01/17/10 Restrictions on activities in areas designated as critical habitat for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales may not be as "onerous" as many have feared, according to an administrator with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service.
01/17/10 Wasilla's boys basketball team salvaged a seventh-place showing at the Alaska Airlines Classic with a 60-53 win over East on Saturday at West High.
01/16/10 The 21st Annual Anchorage Folk Festival kicks off Thursday. Through the end of the month, something like 500 local folks and national guest artists will celebrate traditional music, dance and storytelling for a combined audience that typically numbers about 10,000.
 01/15/10 The Pratt Museum is known beyond the Kenai Peninsula, and even beyond Alaska. In 2006 it won a national award, but it's small and needs to expand. The museum just received a $750,000 grant.
 01/15/10 In a year when the economy struggled to recover, business boomed for Total Reclaim, a computer and electronics recycling firm now carrying its mantra on the merits of recycling all...
 01/12/10 The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is seeking public comments on its recently completed Environmental Assessment of Invasive Species Eradication for Habitat Restoration on Tangik, Poa, and Sud Islands.
 01/06/10 Aspiring charter boat captains will have to find someone willing to sell them a permit before taking clients fishing for halibut from the central Gulf of Alaska to southeast Alaska as part of efforts to avoid overfishing. New rules published Tuesday go into... Alaska - Fish - Gulf of Alaska - United States - Halibut
 01/06/10 As far as honeymoons go, driving the Alaska Highway, sleeping in a 1957 Plymouth station wagon, eating cold cheese sandwiches and drinking hot orange Kool-Aid doesn't get a five-star rating.
 01/06/10 The U.S. Navy holds an open house, presentation and public hearing Saturday at West Homer Elementary School on a draft environmental impact statement for Navy training in the Gulf of Alaska.
01/06/10 Eight members, most of them strongly in favor of gun rights, were elected to the Anchorage Fish and Game Advisory Committee on Tuesday night, an election that brought an overflow crowd to vote at Anchorage School District headquarters.
12/05/09 1. Eric Legros, 40 (Brentwood, TN.), 17:17.2. Joseph Pearce, 35 (Jonsboro, AR.), 17:53.3. Kevin Dallas, 25 (Chicago, IL.), 17:57.4. Genaro Martinez, 20 (Arlington, TN.), 18:20.5. Andrew Hockensmith, 16 (Brighton, TN.), 18:49.6. Chris Byron, 41 (Monticello, IL.), 18:56.7. Hal Roberts, 36 (Memphis, TN.), 18:57.8. Jesse De La Fuente, 45 (Naperville, IL.), 18:58.9. Jesse De La Fuente, 45 (Naperville ...
 12/02/09 On Thanksgiving, as friends and families feasted together under warm roofs, a homeless man's body lay out in the cold in a thick forest near the heart of Homer.
 11/30/09 The following items were compiled from reports prepared by law enforcement agencies: Willits Police Department November 18 Michael Henri Glasgow, 56, of Homer, Alaska, was arrested on suspicion of being a fugitive from justice.
 11/29/09 With his critically acclaimed debut novel, "Everything Asian," Sung J. Woo succinctly and poignantly captures a year in the life of a 12-year-old immigrant who tries to navigate life in the United States while trying to understand his estranged father. A resident of Washington, N.J., the 38-year-old author chats about his recent trip to Alaska and how he gets the best hotel deals.
 11/28/09 HOMER, Alaska - After 20 years as a Homer taxi driver, Nick Bairamis took on a semi-retired lifestyle this summer. He sold his taxi business, but kept a cab and still works Homer's streets five nig...
 11/28/09 After 20 years as a Homer taxi driver, Nick Bairamis took on a semi-retired lifestyle this summer. He sold his taxi business, but kept a cab and still works Homer's...
 11/28/09 Kirsten Elisabeth Wolcott of Laneview in Essex County, a 20-year-old Seventh-Day Adventist student missionary, was found murdered on the Pacific island of Yap after going jogging near the school where she was teaching, according to a story on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website.
11/28/09 A Whittier charter boat fishing captain is organizing another Alaska fishing tournament aimed at helping veterans who served in Iraq , Afghanistan and during Desert Storm. |