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A veteran NPR editor publicly questions whether the public radio network has, in its push for greater diversity and representation, overlooked conservative viewpoints.

Fishing, camping, kayaking, and a year of all expenses paid living; that’s off a poster from the Karluk Tribal Council that went viral last week. They’re looking to pay two families with four children each to move to the village in an effort to get state funding and re-establish a school. Within a week, between …

Many Kodiak fishers spend the summer salmon season around the archipelago. But many others also head to Bristol Bay to harvest sockeye. KMXT Reporter Brian Venua is from Dillingham and previously reported for KDLG’s Bristol Bay Fisheries Report. He was in town visiting family last week, and stopped by the station to talk to Bristol …

Longtime Kodiak resident Rod Murdock, who was 73, and 91-year-old Byron Chitwood died in the crash, according to Alaska State Troopers. The Piper Cherokee went down just north of the village of Old Harbor on Sunday, July 2 – about 6 minutes into the flight. The names and any identifying information of those on board …

Kodiak’s Tanner crab season started Jan. 15 at noon. The Kodiak Crab Alliance Cooperative, which represents the fleet, agreed to ex-vessel prices between $3.50 and $3.70 per pound with the island’s processors over the weekend, according to fishermen. Several boats left the harbor on Sunday ahead of the season to prepare for the January 15 …

Plucky’s Pickup is in the heart of downtown Kodiak sharing a parking lot with the mall and features purple light-up signs in its windows. Al Seale is the store’s owner and operator. He says the idea is to give people who are closer to downtown an option for basic groceries rather than having to walk …

Kodiak’s City Council unanimously approved all its resolutions at a regular meeting Thursday night, January 11th. Those included changes for the Baranof Park Improvements project, and an upgraded system connecting Kodiak’s wastewater and water treatment plants, among other business items. The city committed to paying $4,962,000.00 for the Baranof Park Recreation Center project back in …

The Kodiak Island Borough School District [KIBSD] could face a deficit of millions of dollars this year without an increase in state education funding. Cyndy Mika is the district’s superintendent. She said they’re still putting together priorities for a first draft of a budget for the 2024-2025 school year. “This way of doing it, where …

Kodiak Island’s invasive crayfish population has reached levels that make it too difficult to completely eradicate. That’s according to a biologist running a program to remove signal crayfish from Buskin Lake. Daniel Smith is the biologist with the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak. He says signal crayfish were first observed in the Buskin River more than …

Due to icy road conditions, Kodiak school buses will be running two-hours behind schedule this morning. All schools on the road system will begin two hours late today. This does not effect rural schools. Additionally, morning preschool classes are canceled today. In an automated phone call, the Kodiak Island Borough School District said the delay …