This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it     
            Two years ago, KMXT spoke with our friend Wes Hanna. At the time, he was visiting from Portland, but had high hopes of returning some day to Kodiak, the community he had come to call his own – which he has. But a life-long health condition had postponed that dream. Hanna had kidney disease, and was about to receive a transplant from one of his siblings. KMXT's Brianna Gibbs spoke with both of them and finds out how they're doing two years later.

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
            Senator Mark Begich was on APRN’s Talk of Alaska with Lori Townsend Tuesday, taking phone calls from across the state and discussing a wide variety of topics. Alaska’s junior senator addressed the chinook salmon disaster declared in Western Alaska and Cook Inlet, saying a state declaration helps get the ball rolling in Washington D.C.

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it     
           October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and a recent study has shed some light on alarmingly high victim numbers in Kodiak. Rebecca Shields is the executive director of the Kodiak Women’s Resource and Crisis Center and said a survey was conducted within the Kodiak Island Borough to help provide a baseline of information.

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
            In this day and age of constantly rising costs – especially energy costs – the smaller electric bills Kodiak residents have been receiving this month are doubly amazing. Kodiak Electric Association CEO Darron Scott wrote in the KEA newsletter the renewable energy resources used by the co-op have contributed to a reduction in the “COPA," the Cost of Power Adjustment.
            The COPA is a surcharge for when KEA has to depend too much on its diesel engines to generate electricity. The COPA was 3-point-95 cents per kilowatt hour, but dropped more than two cents during the third quarter to 1-point-86-cents.
            The reduction comes despite being slight short on rain at the Terror Lake hydro power facility and was calculated before the three newest turbines on the Pillar Mountain wind farm fully came on line. Scott says with more wind in the system, and a third turbine at Terror Lake, KEA customers can look forward to even greater renewable energy production in the future, which could result in even more reductions in electric bills.