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January 29, 2021 by Hope McKenney, KUCB – Unalaska Akutan Volcano overshadows the village of Akutan and the Trident seafood plant, which has nearly 1,000 workers (Courtesy Helena Buurman/Alaska Volcano Observatory) COVID-19 has hit another processing plant operated by fishing giant Trident Seafoods — this time aboard one of the corporation’s massive factory trawlers, the Island Enterprise. …

Kodiak residents driving by the Harbormaster’s office may have seen blue field hospital tents- while they may look like set pieces from a movie, they’re actually going to be used by the Emergency Operations Center tomorrow to administer doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to those who sign up in advance. 350 appointments were initially available …

The US Coast Guard has scheduled a formal hearing on the sinking of the F/V Scandies Rose. The hearing will begin Monday, February 22 in the Seattle area, and will proceed through March 5. While the hearing will take place in person, abiding by Washington State COVID-19 protocols, it will also be livestreamed each day …

The City of Kodiak is in talks with Kodiak Electric Association to add electric vehicle charging stations downtown for Kodiak electric vehicle owners. These charging stations are part of the city’s new focus on electric vehicles, including replacing its motor fleet with electric vehicles. At last weekend’s planning session, the City Council discussed purchasing up …

As far as COVID-19 developments are concerned in Kodiak, we have some good news; this morning no new cases of COVID-19 were reported for the Kodiak Island Borough by the Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization. Updated cases were not provided for today; the case counts from Tuesday morning included four new cases- three of those …

January 27, 2021 by Hope McKenney, KUCB – Unalaska Trident Seafoods has only tested about half of its 700 workers, and officials say they think the outbreak is still on what they call an upward trajectory. (Laura Kraegel/KUCB) A COVID-19 outbreak at one of Alaska’s largest fish processing plants has infected nearly 20% of workers with testing …

By Joe Viechnicki, KFSK – Petersburg -January 19, 2021 Long-line caught halibut await unloading in Petersburg. (Angela Denning/KFSK) A federal agency has put dollar amounts on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for commercial and charter fishing industries nationwide. On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report on the virus’ economic impact on seafood …

Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States Wednesday morning. Watch his first speech as president here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtKDN4LgL8You can also listen here:

January 19, 2021 by Lex Treinen, Alaska Public Media The Robert B. Atwood building and neighbors in downtown Anchorage. (Alaska Public Media staff photo) Several state buildings in Juneau and Anchorage are closed out of an “abundance of caution” due to fears about pre-inauguration violence. The closures were announced in an internal memo from Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s chief of …

By ISABELLE ROSS & HOPE MCKENNEY • KDLG Dillingham The 233-foot Aleutian Falcon caught fire shortly before midnight Wednesday, according to the Coast Guard. It was one of two floating processors Trident operates during the herring and salmon seasons in Alaska. A 233-foot floating processor owned by Trident Seafoods caught fire shortly before midnight Wednesday. The processor, Aleutian …