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

The driver and one passenger were transported to a Seward hospital with minor injuries

After a month of friendly competition to help feed local families, Soldotna has been crowned the winner of the 2026 Great Kenai-Soldotna Food Fight, a “two towns, one mission” competition.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has released the 2024–2027 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) Amendment #6 for public review and comment through August 2, 2026.

The celebration recognized the addition of screening mammography, laboratory draw services, and DEXA bone density screening at the health center on Barnacle Way in Kenai.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is continuing a multi-year study tracking juvenile Kenai River king salmon as they migrate from the river into Cook Inlet.

Murnane disappeared from Homer in October 2019, prompting an extensive search involving law enforcement agencies, volunteers, and community members.

The Legislature had been scheduled to return July 1 to consider the conference committee’s work on HB 381, but that has been postponed until July 16, with the special session set to conclude July 19.

Engines, helitack crews, and air tankers were dispatched as firefighters worked to protect nearby homes; no evacuation orders were in place as of Wednesday evening.

Two orphaned harbor seal pups are receiving care at the Alaska SeaLife Center after a volunteer Seward pilot helped transport the animals nearly 300 miles from remote areas near Cordova to the Center’s Wildlife Response Program.