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By Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage –May 25, 2021 Don Dyer stood among boxes full of tiny, fluffy chicks on a recent weekday afternoon in Anchorage as he read off customer Rachel Varela’s order. “One Dominant Copper. One Rhode Island Red. One Blue Sapphire. Two Barred Rocks,” the poultry farmer called over a …

At last Friday’s meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission, the group took up one item: the Kodiak Agricultural Experiment Station Barn, or more popularly known as, the Barn. The Barn, first built in 1922 by the federal government as part of a plan to assess the agricultural potential in Alaska, sits next door to the …

As the days lengthen and the sun shines down on Kodiak, the rumble and roar of powered sports vehicles echoes once again through trails and backwoods of Kodiak. No doubt their riders are looking forward to the Ididarock this upcoming Saturday. The Ididarock is a longstanding off-road race with ATVs, dirt bikes, side-by-sides, and now …

Comparison of Alaska’s total jobs in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Alaska still has fewer jobs than before the COVID-19 pandemic, but continues to grow. (Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development) Kodiak’s unemployment rate in April dropped to 6 percent compared to this time last year. In April 2020, near the beginning of the COVID-19 …

By Wesley Early, KOTZ – Kotzebue – May 24, 2021 The state’s largest wireless internet provider is planning a major boost in service for both urban and rural Alaskans. GCI Antenna. (Sir Mildred Pierce/Flickr Creative Commons) Currently, Alaska’s fastest internet speeds are in more urban parts of the state, including Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, and the …

The Borough Assembly has approved $10.5 million for the Kodiak Island Borough School District for the next school year. This is about half a million less than what the school district had requested, but nearly $1 million more than they received last year. Some Assembly members, such as Duane Dvorak supported funding to the school …

May 20, 2021 by Greg Kim, KYUK – Bethel Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky, D-Bethel, speaks during a House floor session in the Alaska Capitol in Juneau on Feb. 23, 2020. (Photo by Skip Gray/KTOO) The Alaska House of Representatives has passed two bills sponsored by Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky, D-Bethel. House Bill 123, a bill for the state legislature …

After months of planning, the Sun’aq Tribe will be hosting its Alutiiq Festival along Near Island’s North End Trail this Saturday. According to Alyssa Madrid, Cultural Program Coordinator for the Sun’aq Tribe, the festival will be held outdoors due to the pandemic. “We decided to have an outdoor festival this time around. And with that, …

USCGC Polar Sea, a decommissioned heavy icebreaker. (US Coast Guard) When Alaska state representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (KRISE-TOMkins) from Sitka read that the Coast Guard was going to send three new icebreakers to port in Seattle, instead of Alaska, he had one word: “Baloney.” In a meeting of the House’s Military and Veteran’s Affairs committee on …

The legislation extends for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.