From upscale white tablecloth restaurants to take-out sandwich shops, Homer's creative chefs have been crafting a cuisine that, for lack of a better term, could simply be called Homer Style. It's a ...

The City of Homer is trying to kick out campers at an unofficial campsite on the Homer Spit. Police are telling people living in a parking lot beside the Seafarer’s Memorial to move to an official ...

On Saturday night, July 15, Roger and Carol Christianson were settling into their RV parked at the end of the Homer Spit, Alaska, when their cellphones buzzed violently: A tsunami warning. A 7.2 ...

Kayaking on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage is so much fun. With beautiful lakes, rivers and bays at Seward and Homer, ...

The Homer Spit’s future as an iconic tourist attraction is in danger of washing away. Erosion along the spit’s sea walls is not a new problem. City officials are working with state and federal ...

FAIRBANKS - The Salty Dawg Saloon has been a Homer Spit landmark for more than 60 years. Part of the structure dates to the end of the 19th century, when the Spit was an on again, off again community ...

HOMER, Alaska (AP) — Homer officials are considering allowing retail marijuana stores on the city’s popular marine tourist draw, the Homer Spit. The Cannabis Advisory Commission had recommended that ...

HOMER, Alaska – Not long ago, a bald eagle smacked right into Kurt Marquardt’s head. The bird bruised him and nearly knocked him off his feet. But it could have been much worse. Marquardt, a ...

Homer, Alaska — the “end of the road” that winds far south of Anchorage — opens into glorious view over a final bluff, unspooling at last a four-and-a-half mile spit of land from its fireweed hills, ...

In 1896, Homer Pennock arrived in a sleepy seaside hamlet in southern Alaska hoping to strike a fortune. He managed the Alaska Gold Mining Company, but his mining ventures ultimately failed. Pennock ...