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A steady stream of officers entered through a second story window using an NYPD armored vehicle with a mechanized drawbridge.

In a new interview with TIME Magazine, Trump promises to prosecute President Biden, unleash the National Guard on immigrants and says it's "irrelevant" if he's comfortable criminalizing abortions.

Every year around the holidays, birding enthusiasts across the Western Hemisphere take part in the Christmas Bird Count. They document birds within a 15 mile radius over a 24-hour period, and the results are shared with the Audubon Society. Public observations from the Christmas Bird Count are often helpful for researchers, and can provide vital …

All-purpose vehicles, like off-road side-by-sides and all-terrain vehicles, can legally travel Alaskan roadways. Last fall, the governor’s office announced the relaxed regulations, and they went into effect this past weekend, but those changes might be short-lived on parts of Kodiak Island. Kodiak City Council will have a first reading next week of a draft ordinance …

Kodiak’s Baranof Park received a sizable funding bump last month for its Recreation Center Improvements Project. Private donors chipped in $360,000 for the proposed overhaul, and the donations put the project $474,000 shy of its total fundraising goal of $3.8 million dollars. Corey Gronn is the director of Kodiak’s Parks and Recreation Department. “We’re very …

Did you feel a jolt last night? At about 8:25 p.m. on Monday, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit the northernmost end of Shuyak Island. The quake was at a depth of 7.3 miles and about 50 miles away from the city of Kodiak. Four hours later, a magnitude 6.8 quake occurred along the Aleutian chain, …

Laine Welch, producer of Alaska Fish Radio, known by her listeners as “Ms. Fish.” (KTOO file photo) by Izzy Ross, KDLG – Dillingham If you listen to radio in Alaska, or if you’re involved in the fishing industry, you’ll probably recognize the voice of Laine Welch. “When I came here, I had never even seen …

A Kodiak “ice bear” during a recent snowfall. Photo: Jennifer Fogle Smith Jennifer Fogle Smith is a wildlife photographer in Kodiak. She’s been documenting the island’s bears for over 20 years – and she has some stories. “This last year I had a beautiful sub adult, female, who was very athletic, was an acrobat,” she …

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce approved disaster designations for over a dozen fisheries in Alaska late last week. Salmon fisheries from the Yukon River to Prince William Sound and the Eastern Bering Sea Tanner crab fishery were cited in the department’s list – so is the Gulf of Alaska’s cod fishery for 2020. The last …

Kodiak’s former mayor Carolyn Floyd has passed away. The Floyd family announced this week that their matriarch died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 88. Carolyn Floyd was born in northeastern Oregon in 1933. She landed in Kodiak in 1955 where she spent most of her life. She had an outsized impact in …