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The risk from the recalled shrimp is "quite low," said Donald Schaffner, a food safety expert at Rutgers University. Cesium-137 is a byproduct of nuclear reactions.

Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center has a solution for the island’s housing shortage – building its own apartment complex for new employees. The new units are on the edge of Providence’s campus, just a short walk from the rest of the company’s facilities. The building has been under construction for the last two years, but …

The clinic held the ceremony last Friday, but they actually moved into the new facility in late June. The new space on Mill Bay Road is much bigger than Kodiak Veterinary Clinic’s previous hospital. Staff had been waiting to move for about a year and a half. Nicole Sassin is the vet clinic’s hospital manager. …

Listen to this story; Thor Johnson is unpacking what he hopes will soon be a thriving new business in Kodiak: The Emerald Game House. He’s setting up shelves and working on displays for the merchandise. Along with Warhammer figurines and small jars of paint, there’s a trunk that Johnson is packing up. It’s filled with …

The former AC general store building in Kodiak may be torn down to make room for an expansive and modern marketplace by a health and social services nonprofit which bought the building in 2014. Kodiak Area Native Association’s acting CEO Mike Pfeffer briefed the Kodiak City Council on the nonprofit’s plans during a Tuesday work …

Ben Millstein’s new still looks unassuming compared to his brewery’s massive fermentation tanks. The 10- foot tall contraption is used to condense and distill what he hopes will bring in more patrons to his brewery. Ideally, he’ll have liquor for sale within the month. But getting formula approval took longer than he expected, and running …

Pandemic disrupted Alaska’s typical hiring pattern. (Source: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section) We continue to get a better idea of just how much the pandemic has affected Kodiak’s economy. Jobs numbers released this month show a picture of Kodiak’s new hires trends before and after COVID-19 mitigation controls hit …

A popular Kodiak cafe has apparently shut down after more than two decades in business. Monk’s Rock Coffeehouse & Bookstore posted on social media on Tuesday that it had closed its doors for the foreseeable. A Facebook post has since been deleted. Efforts to reach the owners were unsuccessful. But its phone number played the …

After 25 years of outfitting Kodiak’s backcountry skiers, snowboarders, and backpackers, Orion’s Sports will be closing its doors this December as the owners enter retirement. Orion’s Sports was founded by Orion Wielebski, son of current owner Steve Wielebski. He invested his fishing money into opening a new skateboard shop in 1996, after a local store …

Listen to this story; Raymond LeGrue, owner of Henry’s Great Alaskan Restaurant, says that keeping regular hours for his restaurant during a pandemic has been a challenge. “This most recent episode, when we restricted our hours, we had some people that were sick, but tested positive. We had several other employees that went up to …