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Listen to this story; Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center administrator Karl Hertz says lately, it’s been hard to attract new employees to the island. Last year, he says nine new hires withdrew after they were unable to find somewhere to live. Hertz says he had trouble himself when he first came to Kodiak. “When I …

Listen to this story: May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the U.S.; this May also marks just over two years since the pandemic upended life for people across the country. Heidi Barrett-McNerney is a licensed clinical social worker and a behavioral health therapist at the Kodiak Community Health Center. She said local therapists are …

Listen to this story; After a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe V. Wade was released in early May, people around the country have been rallying in support of the nearly five-decade old decision. On a sunny and breezy Saturday afternoon, over 70 people gathered in Sargent Park in downtown Kodiak to …

Alaska’s Labor Commissioner Dr. Tamika Ledebtter will visit Kodiak Island for this year’s ComFish commercial fishing trade show. (Photo; Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development) Alaska’s Labor Commissioner Dr. Tamika Ledbetter will be in attendance for ComFish – Kodiak’s annual commercial fishing trade show – this week. Ledbetter moved to Alaska in 2003 when …

The country’s tsunami warning system is in “urgent need” of an overhaul. That’s according to a report compiled by a panel of seven tsunami experts and presented to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Scientific Advisory Board in January. The U.S. currently has two tsunami warning centers, which operate independently of one another: one in …

State and federal lawmakers from Alaska are applauding the Biden administration’s decision to ban Russian seafood imports. It’s part of a series of escalating sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Sen. Dan Sullivan and Congressman Don Young released statements Friday welcoming the move. Legislators at the state and federal level have been calling …

Dave Allen and his wife Jolene with one of his dogs. Allen ran the Iditarod in1991, the same year he moved to Kodiak Island. (Photo courtesy Dave Allen) Kodiak Island may be more than a thousand miles from Nome, where Iditarod mushers will cross the finish line, but the island does have a connection to …

Alaska’s halibut season opened Sunday, Mar. 6. Doug Duncan is a fisheries management specialist with NOAA fisheries. He said that after several years of decline, this year’s catch limit is up by over 5.7% from last year. “The fish that were born in 2012 are beginning to show up, and it’s looking like that was …

Future waterfront development in Kodiak was the first order of business at last week’s Kodiak city council meeting. Councilmembers unanimously approved $100,000 to begin the process of updating the city’s Waterfront Master Plan. The last time the city of Kodiak updated its Waterfront Master Plan was back in 2010, and Kodiak’s harbormaster Mike Sarnowski said …

State health officials and researchers are urging Gulf of Alaska subsistence harvesters to get their shellfish tested to prevent paralytic shellfish poisoning. Shellfish sold in restaurants and stores are subject to their own regulatory testing. That’s after a sample of razor clams from Chignik Lagoon late last week tested for levels of toxins 8 times higher …