The Soldotna City Council met on Wednesday, November 8th to discuss making some updates to an ordinance, commonly referred to as the “bed tax ordinance.”

With the holidays just around the corner, what better way to show that you care then to donate a turkey to a family in need? But here in the peninsula, you don’t just donate a turkey, you adopt it with the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank!

Going once, going twice, sold to the woman in red! That’s right, the Annual Gala and Auction at the 2023 for the Boys and Girls Club of the Kenai Peninsula took place this past Saturday, and the event was thrilling!

The National Weather Service in Anchorage has extended a Winter Weather Advisory through Thursday November 9th at 9 a.m. for the Western Kenai Peninsula including the cities of Kenai, Soldotna, Homer, and Cooper Landing.

This week, Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat (VOICE) President Nagruk Harcharek will join a delegation of elected North Slope Iñupiat leaders in Washington, D.C. to advocate for consistent engagement, including consultation, by the federal government on all matters regarding their people and ancestral homelands.

The Kenai City Council met on Wednesday, November 1st to authorize an Employee Health Care and Basic Life Insurance.

The Alaska Department of Family and Community Services is asking Alaskans to join in on Wednesday, November 8th at 6:00 p.m. to discuss Behavioral Health Services for Children and Youth.

U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chair of the CECC, introduced the Hong Kong Judicial Sanctions Act, which would hold officials of Hong Kong’s judiciary accountable for human rights violations and support Hong Kongers facing persecution under Beijing’s “national security law.”

Kodiak jury convicted William Heckt of Kodiak of one count of Assault in the First Degree and one count of Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance in the Fifth Degree.

The KSRM News Department has compiled some top headlines of the week.