Kayla Desroches/KMXT Republican representative of District 32, Louise Stutes, says she’s not done in the House – she still has bills she’d like to see through and a budget to work on. If re-reelected during the upcoming election, that’ll be the first item she tackles. “First and foremost we need a sustainable budget for the state. We have to become …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks with Alaska Sea Grant’s Julie Matweyou and the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association’s Bruce Wright about the development of a test kit to monitor for paralytic shellfish poisoning.

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Tonight, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council will hold a long awaited work session to discuss two items that have been controversial due to the difficulty in communication between the two bodies. One topic is the consolidation of the borough and city into one unit of government and the other is the memorandum of agreement …

Graphic by Jay Barrett/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Carrie Harris, from Homer, is running for senate for District P as a non-affiliated candidate, and she’s looking to knock off veteran Kodiak Republican Gary Stevens. Harris works in the Fish Factory and Auction Block in Homer, and has been a cab-driver, a police officer, and has worked for both the State of Alaska …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Summer is quickly coming to an end for Kodiak students, but a few local scholars are ready for a new year of learning, thanks in part to a science camp that wrapped up earlier this month. There’s no rest for science and the kids who want to learn it. The ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp in Anchorage …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Sunday was National Senior Citizens Day, and Alaska has its fair share of older residents, many who are aging with the state. Denise Daniello, executive director of the Alaska Commission on Aging in Juneau, says many of those people arrived in Alaska because of the oil boom in the 1970s. “There were a lot of young people who …

Gary Stevens. Photo courtesy of Alaska State Legislature If you google Gary Steven’s name, you’ll find a slew of articles about hall-of-famer, Gary L Stevens, a diminutive horse jockey with a long history of racing, and Alaska’s Senator Gary Stevens has also been in the saddle for quite a few years. And he wants to stay in the saddle. In …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough will pursue replanting at least two types of trees in the Chiniak area. At its regular meeting last night, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly approved entering into a contract with Koncor Forest Products to buy spruce tree seedlings for reforestation of the burned Chiniak area. According to Resource Management Officer Duane Dvorak, staff is …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Researchers are developing a field test kit that would make it easier to monitor for paralytic shellfish poisoning. Project partners include NOAA researchers from the lower 48 as well as community testers based on Kodiak Island and in the Alaska Peninsula. Despite the high level of toxicity found in shellfish in the Kodiak Archipelago, people still harvest them. …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The issue of reforestation in the burned area of Chiniak will come again before the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly at its regular meeting tonight (THURS). The assembly will review a draft for a contract with Anchorage-based Koncor Forest Products to purchase 300,000 spruce tree seedlings. In the regular meeting packet is a letter to Resource Management Officer Duane …