07/05/11 Legislators are enthusiastically considering the idea of the state financing and even owning a $7.5 billion pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to Interior and Southcentral Alaska markets.
07/03/11 JUNEAU, Alaska - There's been no reportable progress toward reaching agreements in the year since TransCanada Corp. announced that it had received bids from "major industry players and others" inte...
07/02/11 BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska There's been no reportable progress toward reaching agreements in the year since TransCanada Corp. announced that it had received bids from "major industry players and others" interested in using its proposed pipeline to transport natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to market. Antsy lawmakers have already started calling for the state to consider ...
06/28/11 BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska The Alaska House on Tuesday defeated a measure that would have extended the state's coastal management program, a surprising end to a special session that had been called to try to save it. The opt-in program, which allows states to put conditions on certain activities on federal lands and waters, will now expire Thursday night. On Monday, the Senate ...
06/22/11 Gary Superman of Nikiski has thrown his hat into the ring of candidates in the 2011 race for Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor.
06/22/11 On June 14, Jack and Darlene Conright would have celebrated a milestone together. The day would have marked eight years of marriage for the couple from Nikiski. They would have likely spent the day relaxing on Hesketh Island in Kachemak Bay, where they were married, Darlene said.
06/21/11 (Seattle, WA; June 21, 2011) - In recognition of Crowley Maritime Corporation's safe harbor ship assist and tanker escort operations on the west coast, Tesoro Maritime Company recently honored Crowley's harbor services team with safe work awards - one for each of the past four years - during a ceremony in Crowley's Seattle office.
06/17/11 The Alaska Senate is calling for a special session to keep the state's coastal zone management program from dissolving on June 30. But it's not clear whether the House will go along.
06/17/11 An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 shook Southcentral Alaska just after 11 a.m. Thursday, according to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer.
06/08/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A drilling rig bound for Cook Inlet has been diverted to Canada. Petroleum News reports the Spartan 151 jack-up drilling rig arrived in Vancouver on Tuesday aboard a foreign-...
06/04/11 Want to see the Arctic Ocean? Just start driving the Haul Road north of Fairbanks. You'll pass through miles and miles of rugged, beautiful, unfenced land. And before you make it to the ocean, there's one other complication: the security gates.
06/03/11 Escopeta Oil will have work done on a jack-up drilling rig at a Canadian port. But when -- and if -- the rig will turn around and resume its voyage to Cook Inlet is not certain.
06/03/11 A Norwegian company recently announced that this August, two large ships will arrive in Cook Inlet to transport the fertilizer plant that once employed hundreds on the Kenai -- and pumped millions into our local economy -- from Nikiski to Ossiomo, Nigeria.
05/26/11 The final $3.1 billion capital budget passed by state lawmakers this month includes nearly $144 million for the House districts that serve much of the Kenai Peninsula.
05/24/11 Before a skiff loaded with men and razor clams motored from a muddy Cook Inlet beach last week, one of the clam diggers saw the potential for danger and decided to walk back to camp, troopers say.
05/22/11 KENAI, Alaska - Kenai residents living near the local raceway will rest easier this summer thanks to a 15-year-old Nikiski student's project. Hannah Tauriainen's Caring for the Kenai project is ...
05/20/11 The saying "A picture is worth a thousand words" refers to the notion that an idea can be conveyed with only a single still image ... quickly. | For even more photos, click here to see Daily News photo galleries.
05/20/11 Alaska's surest sign of summer is here. Construction season on the central Kenai Peninsula kicked off with work on Kalifornsky Beach Road earlier this month.
05/20/11 Tyler Spalding's quest began on the central Kenai Peninsula when he was a freshman in high school. Thit Bak's started in Denmark when she was 10. The athletes took different paths to the Class 4A state track and field championships, which are today and Saturday in Fairbanks.
03/22/11 A year after legislators tried to get all the different in-state gas pipeline agencies operating together, a new bill would remove Harold Heinze of the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority from the group. | 
