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In the 1940s, Kodiak braced for invasion. Tens of thousands of soldiers and sailors laid infrastructure and built fighting positions, entrenching themselves in preparation for an offensive by the Japanese Imperial Navy that never came. Some 70 years later, Kodiak is a thriving community that is presently under an entirely different type of invasion. The …

The British government has pushed the plan as a way to deter asylum-seekers from taking boats to Britain. But the U.N. human rights office has warned aviation authorities not to take part.

June 10, 2021 by Nat Herz, Alaska Public Media Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, R-Anchorage, wraps up debate on House Bill 126 relating to a code of military justice, Feb. 3, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/KTOO) Former Anchorage GOP Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux faces four new felony counts of voter misconduct, state prosecutors announced Thursday. LeDoux’s former legislative aide, Lisa …

As food trucks continue to pop up around Kodiak, with ten active trucks operating now plus a brand new pizza truck opening just this week, the city is taking steps to regulate the growing industry. Listen: In this week’s city work session, the city council discussed ways to standardize how food trucks operate in city …

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 …