Davis Hovey
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A fire has caused “irrecoverable damage” to a rocket that was initially expected to launch this summer from the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska on Kodiak Island.
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A few totes of Norton Sound red king crab were for sale on the dock in Kodiak on July 19. The Kodiak commercial fisherman who legally caught the king crab is facing some pushback from Nome residents.
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Kodiak Island Housing Authority estimates roughly 75 more homes are needed just for families who have household incomes above $100,000. The local housing shortage, and its solution, are multi-faceted.
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Local news stories this week include a look at fireworks sales in Kodiak and efforts to build a new public use cabin near Pasagshak. Hear that and more on this episode of the Weekly Wrap.
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Kodiak State Parks, under the state Department of Natural Resources, was able to hire more employees for the summer season. That’s despite staffing gaps and high turnover in the last year.
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Dock users at Kodiak’s biggest boat harbor, St. Herman Harbor, are being urged to keep an eye out for eagles in the area, as several attacks have been reported in the last week.
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A new television series about Alaska premiered on July 11. It's focused on big brown bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve with narration from a well-known New Zealand comedian and actor.
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Based on a recent rental market survey from the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, the median rent in Kodiak this year is $1,450. That’s 20.83% higher than last year’s average rent.
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Sixteen candidates from all over the country submitted their applications for the local city manager job in May. Now it's down to the acting city manager and Kodiak’s harbormaster.
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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Davis Hovey chats with Northern Journal's Nat Herz and UAF College of Fisheries professor Courtney Carothers about their special project on Kodiak Island.