Industry experts say they've been asking for more weather stations for years.

Alaska Aerospace Corporation CEO John Oberst has retracted his statement that the request for information it published on Aug. 6 is related to the development of the Trump administration’s Golden Dome missile defense system.

Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Kevin Lunday says these 154-foot fast response cutters have the capability to move beyond the Gulf of Alaska, into places like the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea.

Officials are now monitoring a total of five similar boats in or near U.S. waters in the region. The vessels are consistent with more Chinese research activity in the area in recent years, according to a Coast Guard press release.

Every summer for the past 30 years, culture camps have been held in a remote forested landscape on Afognak Island in the northern end of the Kodiak Island Archipelago. Better known for youth summer camps, this month the island hosted the inaugural adult sobriety camp.

It's the oldest artifacts found on Kodiak yet, meaning human settlement dates back hundreds of years earlier than previously known.

The Trump administration froze billions of dollars in education funding last month, and put Kodiak’s sole General Educational Development, or GED, program in limbo. Then, in late July, the administration said it was releasing most, but not all, of that money.

The Alaska Legislature overturned yet another attempt to slash education funding by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The federal government also is set to release previously frozen education grants.

Corey Potter, who pled guilty earlier this year to federal charges for sending diseased crab to Washington state, now faces fines for violations of the Clean Water Act.

City of Kodiak Mayor Pat Branson announced Monday, Aug. 4, that she is retiring from public service after holding local elected offices for nearly three decades.