The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services reported eleven new positive COVID-19 cases in their Friday update, including five in the Kenai Peninsula Borough. Two cases are out of Homer, one out of Anchor Point, one from Nikiski, and one from a location in the borough with fewer than 1,000 residents.

Alaska Congressman Don Young told KSRM on Thursday that he will not be voting for another COVID-19 stimulus measure. He expressed his ultimate disappointment in how the Federal CARES Act was crafted and ultimately executed, culminating in his lack of support for subsequent measures crafted by Congress.

The Coast Guard will offer courtesy dockside examinations of commercial fishing vessels in Bristol Bay in anticipation of the 2020 Bristol Bay salmon fishery season.

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services reported eight new positive COVID-19 cases in their Thursday update, including three in the Kenai Peninsula Borough. One case is out of Soldotna, one case out of Homer, and one case out of Anchor Point.

Permits for mountain goat registration hunt RG364 in Game Management Unit 15C will be available starting at 10:30 am on June 10 in Seldovia. Permits will be issued from the Seldovia Pavilion, which overlooks the harbor.

A crowd of approximately 100 residents of the Kenai Peninsula gathered in Soldotna at the Wednesday Market on Wednesday afternoon. Their aim was to show solidarity against police violence, in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.

Governor Mike Dunleavy was joined by Commissioner Adam Crum of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, as well as Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s Chief Medical Officer, to announce changes to Health Mandate 10, with regards to interstate travel.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted 6-3 to pass an ordinance that would allow for borough-wide vote by mail elections in a hybrid structure with broad use of by-mail voting and limited options for early in-person voting during borough elections.

With the summer season peeking its head into the Kenai and landscaping projects underway, Homer Electric Association is reminding the public not to take it upon themselves to remove any trees in danger of hitting the energized power lines. They report seeing an increase in the number of outages related to members cutting trees resulting in fallen trees into energized power lines in the last month.