Sea star wasting syndrome, or disease as it has become known, hit Kachemak Bay hard in 2016, killing about 90 percent of sunflower and true star populations. Researchers eagerly waited for spring to ...

Kachemak Bay from Land's End Beach. A personal watercraft ban in Kachemak Bay went back in place on Nov. 16, 2023. (Jamie Diep/KBBI) The State of Alaska is appealing a decision that brought back a ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy takes away from coastal communities, while missing the fact that he is creating the need for expensive marine law enforcement. We already have found out the hard way that the ...

A disease that kills sea stars by dissolving their limbs and melting them into pieces has severely reduced the creatures' population in Alaska's Kachemak Bay in the span of a year. Sea star wasting ...

HOMER, Alaska (AP) — Two young harbor seals are back where they belong after being rehabilitated through the Alaska SeaLife Center’s Wildlife Response Program and released into Kachemak Bay. Dozens of ...

HOMER, Alaska (AP) — Who says science and suds don’t mix? In celebrating its upcoming 20th anniversary, the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve decided to put a little hop(s) in its step ...