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The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center has announced 33 new cases of COVID-19 for the Kodiak Island Borough. Among them are four community transmission cases, 19 unknown transmission cases, three travel related cases, and seven close contact cases. That adds up to 60 total cases reported this week, a number not seen since December of last …

Students and staff at Kodiak public schools will mask up this coming school year. Superintendent Larry LeDoux announced today (TUESDAY) that masks will be mandatory for all vaccinated and unvaccinated staff and students in school buildings and on buses. The announcement said that exceptions may be made with certain students’ individual education plans in mind. …

Kodiak’s Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium stands as a monument to the island’s love of community theater. And it has stood for over 30 years. But as it ages, some of its equipment is lagging behind the new digital era of theater production- an era that seeming more and more inescapable as shows have been held …

The pandemic made things difficult for all school sports, but it devastated high school football. From team practices to the Friday night lights, the sport was turned on its head by the COVID-19 pandemic. But the new head football coach for KHS has his eyes on the ball, and is looking forward to getting the …

Republican House Speaker Louise Stutes of Kodiak joined KMXT’s Talk of the Rock Tuesday afternoon to discuss the upcoming special legislative session. She also touched upon her relationship with the state Republican Party’s leadership and minority Republicans in the legislature. Speaker Stutes spoke very candidly on the state legislature during her talk show interview in …

The National Transportation Safety Board released their findings for the cause of the Sinking of the F/V Scandies Rose Tuesday. A year and a half after the 130-foot crab boat capsized in foul weather south of Sutwik Island, the NTSB has decided unanimously by vote to accept the findings of the investigation report. The report …

Danielle Butts of Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District is on the prowl. She’s marching up an unmarked trailhead with a hiking pack, a warning sign about chemicals, and a bottle of bright blue pesticide. She arrives at her target: an approximately one square meter patch of hawkweed. Orange hawkweed was brought to Kodiak by …

Food truck owners and operators have entered into a dialogue with the City of Kodiak, in order to find common ground with the city’s plan to open up spots for food truck parking. Diane Million of the Million Recipes food truck and the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce met with Kodiak City Manager Mike Twenge during …

Sockeye counts at the Buskin Lake weir as of June 11, 2021, indicate numbers far from escapement goal of 5,000-8,000 sockeye. (ADF&G) The Buskin River will close for sockeye salmon fishing. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced today (Friday) that only 114 sockeye have passed through the weir at Buskin Lake. The ten-year …

By MACKENZIE MANCUSO — KDLG The exams are meant to address safety issues that may be present before the season gets underway. A boat in Dillingham Harbor on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.CREDIT BRIAN VENUA/KDLG The Coast Guard has begun its dockside exams for fishing vessels in Bristol Bay this season. The exams are meant to address …