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This float spotted by U.S. Coast Guard searchers is believed to be from the missing helicopter piloted by former tribal health executive Andy Teuber. (U.S. Coast Guard via NTSB) By Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage-March 23, 2021 A witness who spoke with a tribal health executive before his helicopter went missing earlier this …

The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center will be holding another point-of-dispensing vaccine clinic this upcoming weekend; its first since vaccines were opened up to all individuals over age 16 who live or work in Alaska. The clinic will be held in the harbormaster parking lot, March 20th, and 400 vaccination appointments are meant to be fulfilled …

COVID-19 has driven many indoor public gatherings to be cancelled, or in some cases moved outside. And maybe an outdoor event, in an ironic sense, is appropriate for the Kodiak Outdoor Film Festival, hosted by the Island Trails Network here on Kodiak. Island Trails executive director Andy Schroeder said that they got a little help …

On the final day of the Coast Guard’s hearings on the Scandies Rose sinking, we hear testimony from an accident analyst and closing comments by the investigators. CDR. Smoak, Coast Guard accident analysis: LISTEN HERE Closing remarks and a memorial for the F/V Scandies Rose: LISTEN HERE

The Scandies Rose hearing resumed in its 9th day, with a battery of experts familiar with statistical information on casualties at sea and training on how to prevent loss of life. An interesting point came from Dr. Jennifer Lincoln and Samantha Case, who mentioned in a presentation on the statistical history of marine casualties that …

The search for the head of the Kodiak Area Native Association has been suspended. The Coast Guard says KANA’s CEO, Andy Teuber, was piloting a helicopter that disappeared Tuesday afternoon. The Coast Guard says it launched a search for Teuber 66 nautical miles northeast of Kodiak. Searchers are looking for a black and white Robinson …

A press release from the Kodiak Island Borough School District from Friday evening contained the following; “The Kodiak Island Borough School District is aware of an investigation of a former employee at the Kodiak Middle School. The District reported concerns to the Kodiak Police Department on February 17th, 2021. The investigation has since been turned …

After the arrests of dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters, students across the country have erected encampments on campuses in solidarity.

The Kodiak Maritime Museum has long worked to tell the tales of the fishing industry on the island of Kodiak, and with a new series of aluminum panels depicting Kodiak locals who worked and fished the island since the start of the Kodiak crab fishery, it goes the extra mile to enshrine the stories of …

The Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro (WHEC 724) is pictured during their last Bering Sea patrol. U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo. After 49 days at sea on its final patrol, the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro has returned home to Kodiak. The Douglas Munro is the last of its kind in the Coast Guard; a …