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Dave KubiakVarious species of birds rarely seen in Kodiak were observed during the 2025 Christmas bird count on Dec. 14. According to Bill Pyle, the coordinator for the local Audubon Society count, those species included snow goose and trumpeter swans. -
Kodiak History MuseumThe Shelikof Lodge which featured the Island Room, was established less than two years after the devastating 1964 earthquake and tsunami. When the Kodiak hotel first opened its doors, Ardingers was a House of Music, Sid and Martin Urie had just opened a new bar called Solly’s, and it was the heyday of the King Crab fishery in Kodiak.
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Total snowfall observations from the local wastewater treatment plant were unavailable by the publishing of this story, but one spotter for the National Weather Service reported 8.5 inches fell by Sunday afternoon, Dec. 7. -
Five years after a Pacific cod fishery disaster in the Gulf of Alaska, 2020, federal financial relief is finally being distributed to some of the affected municipalities, like Kodiak. The Kodiak City Council formally accepted $156,158.40 on Thursday, Dec. 4. -
The National Marine Fisheries Service has reopened public comment on President Donald Trump’s executive order on “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.” -
For years Kodiak residents and farmers have been growing small fruit trees in their greenhouses. But now that effort has spread in earnest to communities around the archipelago, including in Port Lions. -
According to chamber staff, the last home show in Kodiak was over 30 years ago. The goal is to promote housing and renovation resources to island residents. -
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.
