It was only for a day, but the Peninsula Oilers were able to return to the field at Coral Seymour Memorial Park in Kenai during the summer of 2025.

An 8-acre fire and two “spot fires” of less than one acre each were still burning near Soldotna on Friday evening, according to a 7:30 p.m. update from the Alaska Division of Forestry. Dubbed the ...

South Spruce Street will not be renamed Kenai Beach Street, after the Kenai City Council on Wednesday dropped the effort from their agenda. First introduced by Vice Mayor Henry Knackstedt on June 4, a ...

Finalists were announced Tuesday for the second annual contest to design “I Voted” stickers for City of Soldotna polling places. Public voting will be open until July 20 to determine the winners, who ...

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A similar version of this two-part story concerning the life of Frank Rowley and the ways in which he changed the City of Kenai first appeared in the Redoubt Reporter in March 2010.

For years I have been giving my friends sage advice about screening potential summer visitors. Unfortunately, the only person who constantly ignores this freely proffered wisdom is me. When summer ...

Except they start singing. It’s the middle of the night and they’re worshipping God and praying. Despite their chains, they’re doing what free people do. That’s because their freedom is not dependent ...

Also pulling off sweeps of both heats and the feature were Alex Schwochert in the Late Models and Clay Petersen in Modifieds. For the Legends, Josh Boone took the feature and Heat 2, while Brent ...

Seniors will be able to use the indoor walking track at the Soldotna Field House for free through a sponsorship by Central Peninsula Hospital. Through June 2027, seniors aged 65 and older will be able ...

Kenai’s Erik Hansen Scout Park, located in Old Town and overlooking the mouth of the Kenai River, is getting a face-lift this week as a group of volunteers joined the City of Kenai to replace the ...

A missing man named Robert Weaver was last seen near Skilak Lake on June 25, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge said this week. In a Facebook post that has been updated multiple times, the refuge says ...

Pride month was marked Saturday by a procession of nearly two dozen people who marched carrying flags, signs and other rainbow-hued decorations from The Goods Sustainable Grocery to Soldotna Creek ...