Only a couple of years after first being spotted in SE Alaska, European green crabs are knocking on Wrangell's door. The State Department of Fish and Game is calling for folks to keep an eye out and report sightings of the invasive species. #aknews www.wrangellsentinel.com/stories/fish...

Saw a movie at an AMC tonight for the first time and Nicole Kidman didn’t even say “heartbreak feels good in a place like this” so what was the point?

Chloe Pleznac is a former reporter for Homer News, recently at the center of a story that got national attention when the newspaper's owner, Carpenter Media, changed her story about a local Charlie Kirk vigil. She discusses what happened next. #akleg Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

This week, union workers at Bend’s newspaper, The Bulletin, spoke out against its owners, Carpenter Media Group. Carpenter became the largest media owner in Oregon and the 4th largest in the nation when it purchased a raft of newspapers in the Northwest in 2024.

The Editorial Board of @adn.com Free speech isn’t free if politicians decide what can be said “This is not a small-town squabble. It’s a breach of one of the most basic principles of American democracy: that a free press must be free from government interference.” re: MAGA Rep. Sarah Vance

Digital archivists Elizabeth Kell and Kevin Allen have been capturing forgotten visions of Alaska history by digitizing aging VHS tapes for nearly two years. A recent find has them seeking subjects of images from a decades-old depiction of Haines. #aknews www.chilkatvalleynews.com/2025/10/15/d...

On today’s episode of the Kenai Conversation, we’re joined by Erin Thompson, Jeff Helminiak and Jake Dye, formerly of the Peninsula Clarion to talk about their decision to resign from the paper and the future of local news on the Kenai Peninsula. #KPBorough www.kdll.org/podcast/kena...

Today is the first day that I'm really not employed at the Clarion, which also makes today the first day since January 2021 that I'm not employed to do journalism. By extension, it's the first day since I got into journalism that I'm not doing that. It's weirder (and sadder!) than I expected.

I’m working the phones for KDLL’s fall membership drive this morning! Call 907-513-1996 and support local news on the Kenai Peninsula!

With no local reporters at the Peninsula Clarion, no one is doing local news in this area like KDLL! After the federal $ cut this year, they need support more than ever, and unlike the corporate newspaper run from out of state that I used to work for, everyone at KDLL lives on the central KPen.

Alaska LNG Project President Adam Prestidge doesn’t fault people for being skeptical about the project’s success. But he expects the skepticism to “fall away” as the project advances. #KPBorough www.kdll.org/local-news/2...

The Haines Borough School District’s school board is considering a policy that would require students to stow their cellphones and other devices in designated areas in each classroom. #aknews www.chilkatvalleynews.com/2025/10/09/s...

It’s gonna be soooooo weird not to be covering the election results tonight, but Ashlyn and KDLL have everything you need to get informed and go vote!

My respite from local news was shorter than anticipated. Went to Palmer on Saturday to help a few southeast newspapers with coverage of cross-country state championships. Find stories by me in the Wrangell Sentinel, Juneau Independent and Chilkat Valley News, also photos for Petersburg and Sitka.

Freshman Jenna Meissner led the Wrangell girls to their first state title — in any sport — in her school's history at the state cross-country Division III championships in Palmer on Saturday. #aknews www.wrangellsentinel.com/stories/girl...

Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, after pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage.

@nytimes.com reports on the resignation of four Alaska journalists. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife permitting office and the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge and Visitor Center are closed. #KPBorough www.kdll.org/local-news/2...

Is this what people without jobs do? Because otherwise it’s just been lots of Star Trek.

$20 per hour is what I was making when I resigned as the only news reporter at the Peninsula Clarion, asked to write 2-3 stories per day. I received one raise while I was there, up from $17 when I started — that increase largely wiped out by the tripling of my insurance premium this year.

Mass resignations at two Alaska newspapers after out-of-state owners bow to political pressure, reports James Brooks for the @alaskabeacon.com

One candidate suspended his campaign, another is battling the borough in federal court over public access and the third is a retired school principal looking to dip his toe into local politics. www.kdll.org/local-news/2...

Last night 4 reporters resigned from the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai & the Homer News. Listen on my podcast to the Clarion’s lone news reporter @jakecdye.bsky.social explain his decision to walk & the future of journalism on the Kenai Peninsula: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #akleg

The editor and nearly all reporters at the Homer News, Peninsula Clarion, and Juneau Empire announced their resignations after corporate management deleted content from a story about Charlie Kirk in response to a complaint from a Republican state lawmaker. www.juneauindependent.com/post/editor-...

Proud of the staff at The Homer News and the Peninsula Clarion who are resigning. Unfortunately, thanks to Sarah's cancel culture crusade, Alaska is losing four fantastic local journalists. Vance NEEDS to be held accountable for her overreach of power.

So much for working a final two weeks in good faith, we’ve all already been locked out of our email accounts.

A group of reporters and editors at two Kenai Peninsula newspapers are resigning over what they say was the handling of a recent article by their parent company, Carpenter Media Group, after it was criticized by a Republican state lawmaker.

Editors and reporters of the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion submitted their notices of resignation today, after management from Carpenter Media Group made changes to a published story last week in response to intimidation from a state lawmaker and without input from our newsrooms. #aknews

Shame on Capenter Media for caving to political pressure and not standing up for a free, independent press in Alaska, and shame on AK State Rep. Sarah Vance for targeting the Homer News with false accusations and misinformation.

Leave it to Homer GOP Rep. Sarah Vance to try to cancel a local paper for describing a man who once said Black women like Justice Jackson do not have "the brain processing power to be taken seriously” as holding “racist and controversial views." My latest from the Memo: #akleg

Rep. Sarah Vance this morning taking a victory lap for her successful intimidation of the free press.

Moving this up in my tbr this week just for no specific reason at all.

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, didn’t like the Homer (Alaska) News coverage of the vigil she organized for Charlie Kirk. On her official letterhead she threatened a boycott. Intimidating a free press because you don’t like what they write? I wonder who she learned that from?

Extreme-right Republican Rep. Sarah Vance this week joined the fervent movement of conservatives using their official platforms and conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death to try to silence the press.

Carpenter Media, without consultation with our newsrooms, pulled this story from the website today. A heinous dereliction of our duty and a cowardly move from the company who says they’re so invested in local news.

I was flippant about this in the original post because its dumb and I stand behind my colleague's reporting, but as I'm watching her deal with targeted harassment sent her way by Vance and by Suzanne Downing, I'm thinking about the lack of protections or support for journalists in this state.

Rep. Sarah Vance announced tonight that she’s organizing a boycott of the Homer News over their fair and accurate reporting on her Charlie Kirk memorial service. Maybe she can get our corporate overlords at Carpenter Media to remember they own newspapers in Alaska. www.homernews.com/news/homer-h...

For the second time, Soldotna’s city council has delayed action on legislation to rezone the area that is set to be part of the Riverfront Redevelopment Project. The council now will not consider the move until February. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/soldotn...

SO(l)D(otn)A pop!

If you saw me running across Soldotna Creek Park to catch the very cool Diamond Dance Project perform “Soda Pop” from “KPop Demon Hunters” at the Harvest Moon Local Food Festival no you didn’t.

Patti Truesdell, incumbent for the Kalifornsky seat on the KPBSD Board of Education, as well as challengers Donna Anderson and Shelby Oden, discussed school funding, curriculum and communications at a forum moderated by the Clarion and KDLL on Monday. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/kalifor...

Who could go outside to cover a food bank fundraiser when this sweet summer child is right here?

Crashed out about my declining employment prospects today and I’m not saying it’s because I dropped my sandwich but that didn’t help.

Incumbent Seward Mayor Sue McClure and challengers Tim McDonald and Leighton Radner sat to discuss their visions for the city at a forum moderated by the Clarion, The Seward Folly and KBBI AM 890 at the Seward Community Library last week. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/electri...

"If Men Played Cards as Women Do” and “Savannah Sipping Society," a pair of one-act comedies by the Kenai Performers, open Thursday and run this weekend and next. The two shows offer distinct depictions of femininity and friendship. www.peninsulaclarion.com/life/its-all...

The Kenai Marching Band hosted Palmer and Wasilla on Saturday for the Second Annual Kenai Marching Showcase, which director Christian Stephanos said is just one step on the band’s journey this year to compete in the Bands of America Grand National Championships in Indianapolis. #aknews

Sargeant Truesdell, one of the three candidates for the Soldotna seat on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, discussed his vision for the borough last week at a candidate forum moderated by the Clarion and KDLL 91.9 FM. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/truesde...

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Board of Education on Monday unanimously voted to add nearly $2 million in spending to its budget for the current fiscal year in response to the increase in funding received from the state this year. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/school-...

The two candidates hoping to be the next mayor of Kenai, and two of the candidates running for the two open seats on the city council met last week to discuss visions for the future of the city in a candidate forum moderated by the Clarion and KDLL. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/kenai-m...

King salmon were in the spotlight last month at the annual Kenai Classic Roundtable, which centered on the decline of the species in the Kenai River and across the state. #aknews www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/salmon-...