5/5/16

A proposal for a $10 drop-off fee for the City of Kenai’s personal use fishery will be added to the 2017 draft budget.

5/5/16

Law Enforcement officers will gather for the annual Alaska Police Memorial Day ceremony in Anchorage on Friday.

5/5/16

The City of Kenai has proposed a 58 percent price increase to the Municipal Airport’s apron lease rates in the draft 2017 budget.

5/4/16

Predominately high birch pollen levels have appeared early and are already terrorizing allergy sufferers from Fairbanks to the Kenai Peninsula.

5/4/16

The Division of Forestry and Mat-Su Borough Firefighters are battling a fast-growing grass fire near Meadow Lakes, north of Wasilla. The fire has been named the Sunrise Fire and has grown to approximately 15 acres in the first couple hours.

5/4/16

Inmates in yellow jumpsuits have been seen cleaning up sections of local roadways this week. Wildwood Correctional Center Acting Superintendent Shannon McCloud says the program was started five years ago.

5/4/16

Kenai City Councilors are scheduled to introduce three ordinances tonight pertaining to use of the city’s airport lands and creating a new Airport Light Industrial Zone for planning.

5/4/16

The City of Soldotna held a three and a half hour budget work session Tuesday afternoon. Their proposal has the city currently sitting as a $900,000 deficit for fiscal year 2017 and suggests an increase to the property mill rate from the current 0.5 to 2.0.

5/4/16

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School Board’s policy committee discussed transgender students in bathrooms and locker rooms during their meeting in Seward Monday, but no change will be implemented right away.