ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard decommissioned Coast Guard Cutter Naushon (WPB 1311) during a ceremony in Homer, Friday. Rear Adm. Megan Dean, the commander of Coast Guard District 17, presided over the ceremony honoring the nearly 40 years of service Naushon and its crews provided to the nation. Commissioned on October 3rd, 1986, Naushon was […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Homer big game transporter was sentenced Monday to five years’ probation for providing big game transportation services for four illegally taken black bears in the Kenai Peninsula. According to court documents, Travis Larson, 49, has been a licensed big game transporter since 2010, and provides transporter services through his company, Alaska […]
(Kenai, AK) — A Kenai jury convicted Homer resident, 46-year-old Marco Ramirez, of Burglary in the First Degree and seven counts of Theft in the Second Degree on Jan. 29. The evidence presented at the six-day trial showed that on Jan. 11, 2022, Ramirez entered the home of a man he used to work for who […]
(Homer, AK) – Thursday, 22-year-old Tyler Cordes was sentenced in a packed Homer courthouse for driving while intoxicated and crashing his vehicle, which resulted in the death of one passenger, 25-year-old Drew Brown, of Homer, and the injury of two other passengers. In August, Cordes pled guilty to Criminally Negligent Homicide, two counts of Assault, […]