Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy signed the Fiscal Year 2024 state operating and capital budgets into law on Sunday, June 18th, 2023.

This year, The Alaska Community Foundation and Rasmuson Foundation worked together to maintain the initiative and provide safe and well-staffed environments for young people in Alaska.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced Thursday June 15th, that the Department of the Interior is distributing $35.4 million to eligible local governments across Alaska through the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program and the Kenai Peninsula Borough was granted $3,634,007.

With these new patients joining four from late May, nine harbor seal pups are now under ASLC care.

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined 22 of her colleagues to reintroduce the Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) Protection Act of 2023 to address the unacceptably high number of “smash-and-grab” thefts targeted at federally licensed gun dealers by enhancing penalties for criminals who steal firearms from federally licensed firearms and ammunition dealers.

Online purchasing using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits has arrived in Alaska, announced Alaska’s Division of Public Assistance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS).

ADF&G is implementing the following sport fishing regulation liberalization by increasing the limits of sockeye salmon to six per day and twelve in possession for the Russian River and a section of the mainstem Upper Kenai River. This regulatory change is effective 12:01 a.m. Sunday, June 18 through 11:59 p.m. Friday, July 14, 2023.

The City of Kenai has a new interactive online map of the Kenai Municipal Cemetery.