Kayla Desroches/KMXT At the Kodiak City Council’s regular meeting last night, the council adopted an ordinance to make it easier for the Kodiak Police Department to control harassment downtown. Pedestrians and business owners in the area have complained about members of the transient population loitering and harassing passerby. City Manager Aimée Kniaziowski explained the need for the changes to city …

Legal marijuana plant in Colorado. Brett Levin/Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT If Kodiak residents have a strong opinion about marijuana businesses in the city and villages, it’s time to start voicing it. Next month, the Marijuana Control Board will start accepting applications for marijuana business licenses. At the Kodiak City Council and Kodiak Island Borough Assembly’s joint work session last night, Cindy …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council will hold a regular meeting Thursday night, and one of the items on the agenda is the second reading and public hearing of an ordinance that would help the Kodiak Police Department to deal with members of the transient population downtown. The city has been reworking the code in order to allow the Kodiak …

Paul Zimmer. Via Alaska Academy of Family Physicians Kayla Desroches/KMXT The now former medical director at the Kodiak Community Health Center has left the island for the far-off land of Washington D.C. From there, he’ll travel to an even farther-off land. Paul Zimmer and his wife, Tia Leber, are in-transit to the capital, where Zimmer will receive training to become …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with Maggie Wall, the creator and executive producer of the LegHead Report, about her background in the Coast Guard, the show, and this year’s legislative session.

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak will soon have its own bus service. The Kodiak Area Transit System previously served nonprofits and patrons with special needs but, starting February 1, anyone can schedule a ride or join the service in its regular route. Project Specialist Jonathan Strong says, when Senior Citizens of Kodiak first started researching the project, they decided to do a …

Maggie Wall. Courtesy of Maggie Wall The legislative session started last week and will continue for 90 days – optimistically. The process can be a long, confusing one, but it’s never dull according to one professional leghead, Maggie Wall. She’s the creator and executive producer of the LegHead Report, an independent show that airs daily on KMXT and covers the …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The contract for the Kodiak Island Borough and City of Kodiak’s fisheries analyst and consultant was on the table at the Kodiak Island Borough assembly’s regular meeting last night, but not all assembly members could agree on whether to extend the contract or not. Part of the fisheries analyst’s job is to represent Kodiak’s interests at the North …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT If you lurched awake at around 2 a.m. this morning and noticed the clock by your beside was black or your radio was off, it wasn’t just you. In a press release today, the Kodiak Electric Association reported a “heavy ice loading on the Terror lake transmission line” created a fault in that line and caused a system-wide …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT In the world of fisheries, the regulatory side serves as the framework for the production side, and one link involves guiding fishermen and their communities in how to navigate the unpredictable seas of policy. Heather McCarty is the fisheries analyst for the borough and city and calls into Kodiak Fisheries Work Group meetings regularly. She says she also …