The KSRM Candidate Forum Series continued Wednesday with candidates for House District 6 and Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly District 1 highlighting the PFD, energy development, education funding, and local taxes.

The arrangement with MEA and Hilcorp would make approximately 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas available to ENSTAR.

A Kenai man has been sentenced to more than 14 years in federal prison for conspiring to traffic more than four kilograms of fentanyl into Alaska, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska.

The Trump administration announced the funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program, completing Alaska’s first-year award cycle under the federal initiative.

The new rate took effect October 1, increasing from 10.323 cents to 11.763 cents per kilowatt-hour.

The KSRM Candidate Forum Series continued Tuesday with candidates for Soldotna mayor and City Council discussing taxes, infrastructure, housing, zoning, and the city’s long-term development.

The four-day series runs October 19–22, with forums airing from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day.

Alaska’s congressional delegation announced a $249M federal grant to complete the long-planned Port MacKenzie Rail Extension, a project designed to improve freight transportation and support industrial development in Southcentral Alaska.

Borough code currently directs the remaining Assembly members to fill a vacancy by the second meeting after accepting a resignation, unless 45 days or fewer remain before the next regular election.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz urged Kenai Peninsula residents to support Republican candidates in the upcoming election during a Get Out the Vote Rally Saturday in Kenai.