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A genetically modified salmon dwarfs a non-modified salmon of the same age in an undated handout photo distributed in 2010. (AquaBounty Technologies) A Massachusetts company is sending genetically modified salmon to dinner tables in the U.S. for the first time. AquaBounty Technologies said it’s shipping five tons of bioengineered salmon to distributors this month. It’s …

No increase to borough-wide property taxes. That’s the big news from this week’s vote on the borough’s budget. While other budgets proposed by the borough manager and other assembly members included various increases to the mill rate, the assembly ultimately decided to approve the budget proposed by assembly members James Turner, Scott Arndt, and Aimee …

By MAGGIE NELSON • KUCB GCI is partnering with a Matanuska Valley-based geophysical and geotechnical surveying company, Benthic Geoscience Inc., to chart the subsea floor along the fiber’s proposed route from Kodiak to the Aleutians.CREDIT COURTESY OF GCI Unalaskans could see a significant boost in internet service by late 2022, if GCI completes work to lay fiber cable …

The City of Kodiak decided this week where to build their new fire station. They settled on a lot at 1240 Mill Bay Road, which the city purchased a few months ago. 1240 Mill Bay road will be the location of the new fire station. According to Fire Chief Jim Mullican, the location will work. …

The ongoing effort of the Borough Assembly to consolidate the borough and city governments may slow down for the summer. The City Council is preparing to table the discussion until after the summer, but it is still looking at tactics that they can apply towards rebuffing the consolidation effort. The borough formed the consolidation committee in 2019, and since …

May 26, 2021 by Tyler Thompson, KDLG – Dillingham Gabe Dunham with UAF and Alaska Sea Grant at Dillingham’s erosion monitoring site by the sewage lagoon, fall 2019. Dunham was part of the initial Stakes for Stakeholders project in 2016 and continues to support erosion research in the region. (Tyler Thompson/KDLG) Researchers from the University of Alaska …

By Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage –May 25, 2021 Don Dyer stood among boxes full of tiny, fluffy chicks on a recent weekday afternoon in Anchorage as he read off customer Rachel Varela’s order. “One Dominant Copper. One Rhode Island Red. One Blue Sapphire. Two Barred Rocks,” the poultry farmer called over a …

At last Friday’s meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission, the group took up one item: the Kodiak Agricultural Experiment Station Barn, or more popularly known as, the Barn. The Barn, first built in 1922 by the federal government as part of a plan to assess the agricultural potential in Alaska, sits next door to the …

As the days lengthen and the sun shines down on Kodiak, the rumble and roar of powered sports vehicles echoes once again through trails and backwoods of Kodiak. No doubt their riders are looking forward to the Ididarock this upcoming Saturday. The Ididarock is a longstanding off-road race with ATVs, dirt bikes, side-by-sides, and now …

Comparison of Alaska’s total jobs in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Alaska still has fewer jobs than before the COVID-19 pandemic, but continues to grow. (Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development) Kodiak’s unemployment rate in April dropped to 6 percent compared to this time last year. In April 2020, near the beginning of the COVID-19 …