KEA wind turbine. (Photo by LaniElderts/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT High winds are causing some residents of Kodiak to lose power. Darron Scott the CEO and President of the Kodiak Electric Association says a number of trees have fallen on power lines, which are causing the outages throughout the region including in the City of Kodiak. KEA has had to delay its crews from making …

Mitch Borden/KMXT For over 20 years, the US Army Corps of Engineers has been working on cleaning up a piece of land just outside the City of Kodiak. After removing tons of soil contaminated by an old military site, it’s finally looking like the end of the process may be closing in. During World War II the US Army and …

MH-60 Jayhawk parked in Cold Bay. (Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Charly Hengen/Coast Guard) Mitch Borden/KMXT On Tuesday afternoon, the Coast Guard received a report that a 44-year-old man was suffering a stroke on the fishing vessel Golden Alaska. A Coast Guard aircrew and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter responded to the call and found the boat 60 miles northeast …

Kodiak’s fire station sits at 70 feet above sea level, which is in the city’s tsunami inundation zone. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT Last month’s earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska left the city of Kodiak’s fire station shaken and cracked. It’s also stimulated the efforts to replace the building. KMXT’s Mitch Borden took a tour with Kodiak’s Fire Department …

Kodiak High School. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT For the past five years, the amount of A’s given out to Kodiak high schoolers have been on the rise, but the increase can’t completely be credited to student’s hard work. Kodiak Island Borough School District used a grading system that inflated its high marks. But earlier this school …

The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly deliberating on issues facing the region. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT At the center of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly discussion of what constitutes a conflict of interest lies the phrase “substantial financial interest,” but neither the borough nor Alaska state law defines it. Well at least, not until last Thursday night when the …

Mitch Borden/KMXT At its regular meeting last night, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly directed the borough manager to begin looking for a consultant to research the pros and cons of the borough consolidating its government with the City of Kodiak. John Whiddon, a councilman on the Kodiak City Council, came to the meeting to ask the assembly, as a private …

Mitch Borden/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough policy concerning conflict of interest has been discussed a lot over the past few months. Tonight, at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting some clarification may be reached on the subject. Assemblywoman Rebecca Skinner wrote an ordinance to define the term “substantial financial interest” in the borough’s code. The phrase is at the …

Chief Mullican goes over Kodiak’s recent tsunami evacuation. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT The Kodiak Island Local Emergency Planning Committee held its quarterly meeting yesterday. The main topic of discussion was last month’s 7.9 magnitude earthquake that shook the Gulf of Alaska. “It was registered as the tenth largest earthquake in Alaskan recorded history. So, it was a pretty …

Fishing boats in Kodiak. (Photo by James Brooks / KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT A new study in Kodiak will hopefully shed some light on what Pacific cod go through when they’re young. “We don’t know how they do in the winter. Where they are. What they are eating. What their energetic requirements are.” Mike Litzow is a researcher for the University …