Annual Sandhill Crane Count Days returns to Homer
The count will take place on Aug. 22, 29, and Sept. 5
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Tuna rice balls make a nutritious road trip lunch
Bite-sized balls are a Korean lunchbox staple and can be paired with vegetables like carrots and snap peas
Work on Watermelon Trail near Homer set to begin
The improvement works are planned to be completed in fall 2027
Life in the Wilderness: The Henry Lucas Story — Part 2
AUTHOR’S NOTE: By the time Henry Lucas survived a ruptured appendix in the Tustumena benchlands in 1931, he had been in Alaska, primarily on the Kenai Peninsula, for nearly a quarter-century. He would spend nearly the rest of his life there.
Letters to the editor
South Peninsula Hospital board should be elected
Police make arrest after Anchor Point cabin burglarized, lawn mowed
Homer man facing 8 charges after 2 trucks, boat and other items stolen
Alaska on course to approve new campaign donation limits in Ballot Measure 1
More than 70% of participating voters approved the measure in unofficial tallies
Homer voters have their say in Alaska primaries
Brent Johnson tops voting for House District 6 while Louise Stutes in front for Senate District C
Alaska Science Forum time capsule: Looking for a few good wood frogs
Note: This article was originally published 30 years ago, on Aug. 7, 1996. Brian Barnes and author Ned Rozell have since retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and scientists now know that the wood frog’s internal body temperature can dip to 0.6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit while overwintering. So the wood frogs are still out there, hopping around and readying for the long winter ahead!
OPINION: How Trump’s Iran war continues Washington’s costliest tradition
War poverty begins the moment America chooses another foreign war over its own future.