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All three reporters in the KMXT newsroom have been recognized recently by their fellow journalists for their outstanding reporting last year. KMXT’s news director, Kirsten Dobroth wins second place at the 2022 Public Media Journalist Association awards Last week, KMXT news director Kirsten Dobroth was awarded second place by the Public Media Journalist Association (PMJA) …

Listen to this story; A group of abortion rights activists from Kodiak say they’re planning a march in solidarity with women around the country after Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Peggy Smith was one of the organizers of an abortion rights rally held in Kodiak in May after a draft opinion overturning …

Kodiak Mayor Pat Branson will be inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame this fall; it’s one of two honors the mayor was notified she’d be the recipient of earlier this week. Kodiak Mayor Pat Branson cutting the ribbon on Kodiak’s Public Library in 2013. Branson will be among 10 women inducted into the …

The Kodiak Island Borough Building. (Photo by Kayla Desroches/KMXT) Members of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted unanimously at Tuesday night’s special meeting to fire the borough manager. Assembly member Geoffrey Smith was absent for the vote. Roxanne Murphy had been hired by the borough in November of last year. She was previously the assistant …

The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted down a funding request from the Kodiak Economic Development Corporation at its last meeting. Since January, the Kodiak Economic Development Corporation – also known as KEDC – was designated as a 5013c nonprofit organization, established a board of directors and hired a part-time project manager. And at Thursday’s Borough Assembly …

The City of Kodiak proclaimed June as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month at its last Council Meeting – and the Kodiak Island Borough issued its own proclamation at last night’s Assembly meeting. The support comes on the tailwinds of a month-long lineup of Pride events in Kodiak. Kodiak’s June pride celebration started as a virtual walk and …

A fisherman at the mouth of the Buskin River. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS) The Buskin River will close for subsistence and sport sockeye salmon fishing on Sat. June 11 at 12:01 a.m., according to Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game. The closure encompasses the inside waters of Chiniak Bay from Cliff Point to the southernmost …

Listen to this story; Bayli Berry is the access services specialist for the Kodiak Public Library. On a recent Tuesday, she set the scene and laid out the escape room rules before my team gave it a go. “You and your partner are mining for gold in the mountains. When you strike it big a …

A group of researchers is hoping that data collected from the Gulf of Alaska’s sea floor will shed new light on the effects of bottom trawling. Scientists from the conservation group Oceana, which is based in Juneau, spent eight days aboard a research vessel circumnavigating the Kodiak archipelago late last month. Jon Warrenchuk is a …

Kirsten Dobroth, KMXT’s new News Director, and her dog, Yukon (photo by Kirsten Dobroth) After serving as one of KMXT’s general assignment news reporters, Kirsten Dobroth is being welcomed this week by KMXT as the new news director. Dobroth joined KMXT in December after thirteen years of reporting in Colorado, most recently at KAJX in …