Kirby Calderwood pleaded guilty to the 2019 murder of Anesha “Duffy” Murnane on Feb. 5, four years after his arrest in 2022.

Homer was born an outlaw. The 7-month-old opossum is one of the latest arrivals at the Oregon Zoo. His journey to Portland covered three states and involved a monthslong search for loose opossums. The ...

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 ...

Almost 10 months after a Texas family’s boat capsized off the coast of Homer, Alaska, a search turned up human remains at the bottom of the bay. In August 2024, the U.S. Coast Guard searched for the ...

UPDATE: On February 5, 2026, 36-year-old Kirby Calderwood pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case of missing Homer, Alaska, resident Anesha “Duffy” Murnane. Her remains have not been found, ...

West Homer Elementary is a public school located in Homer, AK, which is in a remote rural setting. The student population of West Homer Elementary is 209 and the school serves 3-6. At West Homer ...

Grubby the opossum, who has wandered Homer for more than a month, has officially been captured and taken to the Alaska Zoo. Grubby arrived in the Kenai Peninsula community in March after hitching 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, ...