Casey Kelly/KMXT The U-S Senate today (Tuesday) unanimously passed a bill written by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, which gives commercial fishing boats and other small commercial vessels a two-year moratorium from permits for discharges under the Clean Water Act.

Mary Donaldson/KMXT Following trends from the rest of the nation and even Anchorage, some businesses in town are going partially smoke free, while one bar and restaurant is about to be completely smoke free. Mary Donaldson has more.

Casey Kelly/KMXT Despite a recent up-tick in the harvest, fishery managers are continuing to be cautious about this year’s Kodiak area commercial salmon season.

Mike Murray/KMXT A target missile launched from Narrow Cape in Kodiak was part of a successful system-wide test completed Friday, according to a press release issued by the Missile Defense Agency. The target was launched at 1:47 p.m. local time and was tracked by numerous sites participating in the exercise, including a temporarily placed X-Band radar near Juneau, a U.S. …

Brewery guys Mike Trussell (left) and Ben Millstein (middle), along with Kodiak Historical Society Executive Director Katie Oliver, celebrate the release of the Baranov Bicentennial Russian Imperial Stout. Proceeds from the sale of the beverage will go toward restoration of the Russian American Magazin, the 200-year-old National Historic Landmark that currently houses the historical society’s Baranov Museum. (Photo by Casey …

Mary Donaldson/KMXT There is lots of buzz about bees these days. Some areas of the nation are worried that nature’s little pollinators are dwindling, which affects crop production. Mary Donaldson investigates how bee populations in Alaska are doing.

Kodiak’s own Betsy Lund made an appearance on Friday’s World Cafe. If you missed it, here’s the audio of her talking Kodiak with David Dye and the 5 songs she picked to play for a national audience.

Casey Kelly/KMXT Three state lawmakers went on record this week saying the State of Alaska should file an amicus brief with the U-S Supreme Court, urging the court to order Exxon Mobil to pay interest on the 507.5 million dollar punitive damages judgment justices handed down last month in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case. KMXT’s Casey Kelly has more.

{audio}/mages/stories/mp3/080717.littleleagueanchupdate.mp3″] Mary Donaldson/KMXT The 11 and 12 year old Little League all star boys are one and one in the district one double elimination tournament in Anchorage.

Mary Donaldson/KMXT Residents in the Monashka Bay and Dark Lake areas were left without power for about 15 minutes this morning. At about 7-o-7 this morning, the Terror Lake Unit two generator experienced control problems which caused it to go offline. Nancy Sweeney, Kodiak Electric Association’s communications specialist says that in order to balance the electric system, some circuits around …