 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 Tom Feeney scored 13 of his game-high 27 points in the fourth quarter to lead the West boys basketball team into the championship game of the Alaska Airlines Classic at West High with an 80-60 win over Rufus King (Milwaukee, Wis.).
 01/15/10 Not many are in tune with the world of collegiate women's wrestling, but 21 young women and one passionate head coach are setting the bar high at Oklahoma City University.
 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...
01/15/10 When Miami's P.J. Hardwick told his friends he was heading to the Last Frontier, most expressed a measure of disbelief.
 01/14/10 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 over the state of Alaska.
 01/09/10 SOLDOTNA, Alaska - Police say a former Soldotna High School football star is wanted on five felony charges alleging he faked a knifepoint robbery involving a drug deal in which he posed as a victim...
 01/09/10 Maila Jean (Salminen) Curtiss, 70, of Soldotna, Alaska, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, in Apache Junction, Ariz. She was born on Jan. 17, 1939, in Nashwauk to Arne Salminen and Bertha Leppala. Maila was first a homemaker and later worked as a cook for most of her life.
01/08/10 The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Division will no longer mail a paper application to every Alaska household. Forms will be mailed to households that filed a paper application last year.
01/08/10 Organizations that benefited from the Pick. Click. Give. program last year are already looking forward to receiving donations this fall when 2010 Alaska Permanent Fund dividend checks go out.
01/08/10 2009 Frank Lee Memorial Scholarship Tournament all-events champion Tyler Yamada captured his second title in as many months this past weekend at the Alaska Youth Scholarship Tournament.
01/08/10 A former Soldotna High School football star, once named Alaska's player of the year, is wanted by police on five felony charges alleging he orchestrated a fake knife-point robbery involving a drug deal in which he posed as a victim, according to Soldotna police.
01/07/10 There were two times I was transported back 25 years recently. The first was driving past the Orca Theatre in Soldotna, which is showing "Sherlock Holmes" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel."
01/04/10 The Kenai Watershed Forum has recently secured a sizeable contribution to its capital building campaign to renovate a historic building in downtown Soldotna that will soon become KWF's new headquarters.
 12/09/09 Ruth E. Neal, 96, a 21 year Wenatchee resident and former longtime Omak resident, passed away Sunday morning, December 6, 2009, at Blossom Creek Memory Care Center in Wenatchee. She was born on June 25, 1913, at Japton, AR, to the late Nathan and Ollie Onethia (Thomas) Hill.
 12/02/09 Frozen salmon is better for the planet than fresh, because it takes so much less energy to get from the ocean to dinner plates. That's according to a study by Oregon-based Ecotrust which studied factors from catching salmon, keeping it cold and flying them to markets around the world.
12/02/09 On Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., there will be a trapping education class -- which will include a demonstration on how to release trapped pets -- at the Soldotna Sports Center.
11/30/09 The Kenai River Brown Bears snapped a nine-game pointless streak on Sunday at the Soldotna Sports Center, losing 3-2 in a shootout to the Fairbanks Ice Dogs in front of 413 fans.
11/30/09 Alaska's Sports Hall of Fame on Monday discovered what has been gospel in mushing circles the past few years. You simply can't get enough Mackey. | 
