Kayla Desroches/KMXT Candidates for U.S. Senate participated in a fisheries debate in Kodiak this week, and not all of the topics were about federal fisheries issues and tax dollars. Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, Democrat Ray Metcalfe, and independents Breck Craig and Margaret Stock stood up on stage and answered a round of more personal questions. The first was directed to …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT School road safety and gun restrictions were both issues that came up at last night’s Kodiak City Council regular meeting. The council held its second reading and public hearing of an ordinance that would restrict the discharge of firearms within city limits. It comes from a concern for pedestrians in areas where some hunters kill deer, such as …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council is considering a ban on the discharge of firearms within city limits. It’ll hold a public hearing for that ordinance at its regular meeting Thursday night. After a deer was legally harvested on Near Island in 2015 during the hunting season, the city administration decided it would be best to ban all so-called “dangerous …

At podiums, left to right, Margaret Stock, Lisa Murkowski, Ray Metcalfe, and Breck Craig. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Four candidates for U.S. Senate participated in Kodiak’s traditional fisheries debate Wednesday night, and for two hours answered questions about everything from naval exercises in the Gulf of Alaska to which federal fishery would they participate in if they were fishermen. Panelists …

O’Brien Starr-Hollow. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT A Coast Guard rescue swimmer will give a talk about cold water immersion tonight. O’Brien Starr-Hollow says most people are familiar with the term hypothermia, which is when the body’s core temperature drops and the body fights to rewarm itself. He says the first phase is cold shock. “That’s just that initial stage of …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Tuesday night at its work session, the Kodiak City Council consulted the Brother Frances Shelter about how to help the transient population downtown and improve the community at the same time. Executive Director Monty Hawver sat on one side of the table with Mayor Pat Branson on the opposite side, and she asked him to share his experiences …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum’s executive director, April Laktonen Counceller, was in Pheonix, Arizona this week to accept an award on the museum’s behalf. At its annual meeting, the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries & Museums granted the Alutiiq Museum its 2016 Museum Institutional Excellence Award. ATALM is a non-profit which supports indigenous institutions and offers networking and training programs …

For today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with members of Teen Court about what the program involves and why teens should want to get involved during prime recruitment time.

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Four candidates running for U.S. Senate will be in Kodiak tomorrow for the traditional fisheries debate. They’re Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, Democrat Ray Metcalfe, and independents Margaret Stock and Breck Craig. According to the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce website, the Senatorial Fisheries Debate has been going on since the 1990’s. Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Trevor Brown said …

Jim Pfitzer as Aldo Leopold. Photo courtesy of A Standard of Change website Kayla Desroches/KMXT The man behind the first wildlife management program is coming to town. His name is Aldo Leopold, he was born in the 1880s, and he’s a conservationist, essayist, and philosopher. He’ll be resurrected on stage Thursday by Jim Pfitzer, who turned actor for the cause …