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Sen. Dan Sullivan is introducing legislation that goes after illegal Chinese fishing operations. Sullivan announced the Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest Act – also known as the FISH Act – on a visit to Kodiak Thursday. Sullivan says Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, helped author the bill. “This is a very bipartisan bill, …

Kodiak High School. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Listen to this story; The first day of school for Kodiak students is next week. And teachers in the Kodiak Island Borough School District are busily preparing for the upcoming year – including a group of newly arrived teachers from the Philippines. Nori De Asis has …

Matt Van Daele, Daniel Smith and Will Frost scour Buskin Lake for signal crayfish while electrofishing. Listen to this story; The Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak has been looking for ways to reduce the number of invasive signal crayfish from the island’s Buskin Lake, in order to protect crucial salmon habitat. Matt Van Daele is the …

KSTK | By Sage Smiley Early and Absentee in-person voting is open for Alaska’s August 16 elections. Voting for both the regular primary election and the special general election will be on the same ballot. “Vote here” sign placed outside the Kodiak Island Borough and City of Kodiak building. (Photo by Kavitha George/KMXT) In the …

Voters won’t know the results from last week’s statewide election until Wednesday, Nov. 23, but there’s already some indication about who voters in Kodiak’s legislative district ranked first on their ballots. According to unofficial results from Alaska’s Division of Elections, 46% of voters in Kodiak’s district voted for current Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Dunleavy holds a …

By Jeremy Hsieh, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage Election Day is over in Alaska, and enough dust has settled to call some high-interest contests, and to know what to watch for in unresolved races as more ballots are counted. Voters cast their ballots at the Anchorage Division of Elections Office on Election Day, November 8, 2022. …

Democratic candidate for Congress Mary Peltola campaigned in Kodiak over the weekend, and spoke with KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth (Photo courtesy Mary Peltola for Alaska). Mary Peltola made a campaign stop in Kodiak over the weekend. Peltola is the Democratic candidate for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat previously held by Rep. Don Young; she finished in …

Miami-Dade County had proposed rules that would give workers breaks, water, and shade when it's too hot. But a new state law prevents cities and counties from doing that.

Isle Bells during a performance. Listen to this story; Kodiak’s handbell choir, the Isle Bells, is about to begin their fall practice. It’s their first regularly scheduled concert season since the pandemic. The group’s first performance is just around the corner. Ella Katelnikov is the director of Isle Bells. She says the seeds for the …

The Kodiak landfill. Listen to this story; Contractors will be boring holes into some areas around the landfill and filling them with powerful explosives, which will be detonated electronically. The goal is to free up an enormous amount of gravel to be used by the landfill. The borough has two options for acquiring gravel. It …