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by Sabine Poux–KDLL District O Sen. Peter Micciche prefiled SB 29 Friday. The 32nd legislative sessions starts next week. Soldotna Republican Sen. Peter Micciche is again moving to establish a buyback program for set-net permits in Cook Inlet. The program would reduce the number of commercial set-net fishermen on the east side of the inlet. …

North Korea on Monday test-fired suspected short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, the country's neighbors said, as speculation swirled that it could soon launch a banned satellite into orbit.

Today (Monday) the Kodiak Emergency Operations Center reported twenty-seven (27) new cases of COVID 19 for the Kodiak Island Borough. The cases were tested between Tuesday, October 19th and Saturday October 23rd. Eighteen (18) positive cases were tested on Friday. All cases are now classified as community spread. One hundred nine (109) …

Kodiak Island Borough School District superintendent Larry LeDoux (le-Doo) has announced he’ll step down at the end of the school year after 44 years in education. KMXT spoke with LeDoux on Monday about his decision to retire. He says he feels his legacy will be borne out in positive student outcomes, and the quality of …

In the not so distant future, the waters off of Kodiak may find itself host to another seaweed farm. The Department of Natural Resources announced Tuesday a new proposed 10-year lease of a 14-acre kelp farm up for public comment. The lease was requested by Chloe Ivanoff, Hailey Thompson, and Clifton Ivanoff doing business as …

Police in Los Angeles arrested a suspect following a break-in at the home of Mayor Karen Bass on Sunday morning, officials said.

A Christmas day fire destroyed one Kodiak family’s single story home over the weekend. One person was home when the fire started and made it out safely, and no firefighters were injured in the blaze. Gudie Rabang and his wife had owned their home at 3688 Sharatin Road for over a decade before Saturday’s fire. …

The Kodiak Island Borough saw an explosive increase in COVID-19 cases. 53 new cases were reported today for the last week. That’s after only 13 active cases were reported on December 22. Among the 53 cases were 15 non-resident travel related cases. All cases were tested between December 21 and December 28. There have been …

This weekend, Kodiak Island broke the record for the warmest December temperature in the state. The Kodiak Tide Gauge station on the east side of the island recorded 67 degrees on Sunday. That balmy high comes after one of the coldest Novembers on record for the island. “It was a very rare occurrence,” said Tim …

Data from federal meteorologists suggests this past November may have been one of the coldest on record in Kodiak. Temperatures dipped anywhere from 2 to 24 degrees below average, but that unusual cold snap wasn’t record-breaking. That’s because of a technicality, according to Joe Wegman, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Anchorage. “Unfortunately …