The Kodiak City Council plans to hire a longtime city management consultant in Anchorage as its interim manager at the next regular meeting.

One small farm in Kodiak is embarking on a new mission – providing all the milk from one of its dairy cows to local families who are in need. Here's what the dairy farmer says about how it works and how it’s going to be funded:

Scientists believe it was caught in some kind of old fishing gear. It’s at least the 13th dead humpback reported around the archipelago this year.

Last week on Nov. 21, Port Lions residents got a special delivery of salmon fillets. The Kodiak Archipelago Leadership Institute donated about 850 pounds from a Kodiak fishing family to the archipelago community of roughly 150 people.

The Kodiak Island Borough is negotiating with the Tribe for the former North Star Elementary building after it pitched using North Star to expand its daycare services.

The Kodiak Island Borough Lands Committee is teeing up more borough-owned land to sell to the public. During its most recent meeting on Oct. 13, the committee recommended releasing a parcel of land for sale between Beaver Lake Loop and Von Scheele Way. It’s the fourth parcel in that area the committee recently sent the Borough Assembly to approve as surplus for sale.

The interim chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage was in Kodiak this week, touring its Kodiak College campus and meeting with its staff.

There’s a common rule of thumb that it’s safe to harvest and eat shellfish during months that have an “r” in their names: September through April. But on the Kodiak road system, researchers are finding that’s just not true.

The Kodiak City Council on Nov. 13 filled its final vacant seat, bringing the group back to a full six members. Nick Mangini, the runner-up in this year’s municipal election for two city council seats, will fill the vacancy until the 2026 municipal election.

This summer’s salmon season was the 12th largest harvest in the last 40 years. It was also the 13th lowest in value when accounting for inflation. That’s according to preliminary numbers from the state.