05/12/11 Degrees conferred, a meritorious service award given and a new University of Alaska president in attendance. The commencement ceremony for Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College-University of Alaska Anchorage, was an event to remember May 4.
05/12/11 Homer Electric Association reported two power outages in the Robinson Loop area on Wednesday morning. The first power outage was at 9:58 a.m. after a tree fell onto a power line. Power was restored at 11:48 a.m. About 278 customers lost power.
05/12/11 May is a yin-and-yang month for Alaska anglers. Yin are the silvery schools of small hooligan that flood Cook Inlet, bound for their spawning grounds in fresh water.
05/04/11 The Texas Senate passed a resolution Tuesday honoring fallen ICE Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata, who was killed Feb. 15 in an attack in Mexico, purportedly by the Zetas criminal organization. The passage came four days before Zapata would have...
05/03/11 The Texas Senate passed a resolution Tuesday honoring fallen ICE Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata, who was killed Feb. 15 in an attack in Mexico, purportedly by the Zetas criminal organization.
05/03/11 Two years ago, Jasmine Smithson-Willett showed up for Lakeside's softball tryouts and put on a clinic that floored coach Todd Naylor. She zoomed throws across the diamond, slapped singles through righ
05/03/11 HOMER, Alaska - Oh, the ideas we bring home when we travel. For Homer and its summertime visitors, one such idea, the brainchild of 14-year-old Alex Knudtson, is about to become a reality. If ...
05/03/11 Homer Electric Association holds its annual meeting this Thursday at Soldotna High School. Members who haven't voted in the Board of Directors election yet can do so at the meeting with a photo ID.
05/03/11 The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly will be mulling over an ordinance that raises the sales tax cap by $2,000 at its meeting tonight in its Soldotna assembly chambers.
05/03/11 John D. Kell, 82, of East Wenatchee, died Friday, April 29, 2011.
05/01/11 With the 2011 NFL draft in the books , let's dig into our weekend mailbag. Jason Myers from Annapolis, Md., writes: JW, just want to know if you were as blown away as I was when the Atlanta Falcons gave five draft picks to the Cleveland Browns for Julio Jones ? James Walker: I was, Jason. Not only was the deal rich for the Browns, but Atlanta traded up for a position most league executives do ...
05/01/11 Despite its high costs, renewable energy is a good risk-management strategy for Southcentral Alaska electric utilities, which currently depend heavily on natural gas for power generation.
04/21/11 Forward into the past. That's how draft Alaska Redistricting Board proposals could be described that reset boundaries for Kenai Peninsula House of Representative and Senate districts.
04/20/11 Forward into the past. That's how draft Alaska Redistricting Board proposals could be described that reset boundaries for Kenai Peninsula House of Representative and Senate districts.
04/20/11 WACHAPREAGUE -- A silent auction will be held as part of the Cinco de Mayo celebration at the Island House Restaurant on Thursday, May 5, from 5-10 p.m. This fundraising event will benefit Eastern Shore's Own Arts Center and includes live music and entertainment.
04/19/11 Fans who watched the seventh-season premiere of Discovery Channel's reality hit "Deadliest Catch" last Tuesday (April 12) saw the crab-fleet captains gather to pay tribute to friend and fellow skipper Phil Harris, who died last February after suffering a major stroke.A Harley-Davidson fuel tank -- complete with a portrait of avid biker Harris by airbrush artist Mike Lavallee -- was put into a ...
04/19/11 Homestand ends on high note with rout When Jamaal Hawkins left extended spring training in Florida Saturday it was sunny, humid and 90 degrees.
04/18/11 A large state subsidy will be needed to make hydroelectric power from a proposed Watana dam project affordable for consumers in Southcentral Alaska, state officials told an Anchorage municipal energy advisory group April 7.
04/17/11 MOLLY RETTIG Fairbanks Daily News-Miner FAIRBANKS, Alaska Two electricians navigated a forklift through rows of batteries in a tidy, quiet warehouse in south Fairbanks. The building, the size of a football field, houses the world's most powerful battery. The batteries are stacked on four long metal shelves in a horseshoe formation. Tony Cappell and Jed Roland connected water hoses to more than 1 ...
04/17/11 After altering the landscape of high school football by creating a third classification for next fall, the Alaska School Activities Association will consider a big change for high school basketball at a two-day board meeting that begins today in Sitka. | 
