Jay Barrett/KMXT As the Alaska State Legislature nears its half-way point, the pace is quickening to reconcile the various budget plans designed to put a dent in the state’s massive revenue shortfall. Kodiak Representative Louise Stutes, chair of the House Special Committee on Fisheries, said she and her colleagues have maintained their pledge from last month to only concentrate on …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska State Troopers have solved a crime spree that has been plaguing Kodiak since August. In a statement yesterday Thursday, the troopers announced they, with the assistance of state Wildlife Troopers, arrested two men they believe are responsible for a score of burglaries in the past six months, mostly involving firearms, but also including cash and jewelry.  …

Coming up this week, Ocean Beauty is looking for a few good fishermen, could Alaska’s shellfish hatcheries be endangered by ocean acidification, and will they see more herring in the canal? Get it? Sey-mour? Canal? No? Moving on. We had help from KNBA’s Johanna Eurich in Anchorage, APRN’s Liz Ruskin in Washington D.C., KDLG’s Molly Dischner in Dillingham and KFSK’s …

Nick Pletnikoff, on his back, about to be pepper-sprayed in the face by Kodiak Police Department Sergeant Francis de la Fuente. De la Fuente and Officer Phillip Christman  are named, along with the Kodiak Police Department and City of Kodiak, as defendants in a civil suit brought by the Pletnikoff family, claiming poor training and police brutality because of this …

Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska You wouldn’t think the Alaska Marine Highway System’s economic impact would go very far beyond the south coastal port communities the ferries call upon, but a new report shows significant economic impacts for Railbelt communities as well. The McDowell Group, a Juneau-based research business, was hired by the ferry system to produce the report. It lists Anchorage and …

Jay Barrett/KMXT One 28-year-old fisherman is dead and another is in custody after an early Sunday shooting in Kodiak’s Saint Herman Harbor.  According to the Kodiak Police Department, at approximately 12:40 a.m., officers responded to reports that an individual who had been shot in Saint Herman Harbor on Near Island. Officers contacted several witnesses and found an unresponsive male aboard …

Coming up this week, the IPHC boosts coast-wide halibut catch limits, trawlers agree to a Gulf-wide stand down to address the North Pacific Council, and there’ll be no enrichment for Karluk Lake. And is the second time the charm for a Board of Fish candidate from the Kenai? All that and we say goodbye to one of the founders of …

Coming up this week, young fishermen are gathering right now in Juneau for a summit meeting, scientists share research about The Blob and its potential effects on seafood, and Arctic proposals are mostly met with open arms at the Board of Fish meeting. All that and more, coming up, on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KNOM’s Emily …

Jay Barrett/KMXT If you’re a GCI cable TV subscriber, you may have noticed that the channel that brought you such popular shows as Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and currently The Walking Dead, is missing from your menu lately. That’s not an accident. Nationwide, about 4-million subscribers of mostly small cable providers are without AMC. According to GCI’s Kodiak manager John …

Alaska Governor Bill Walker’s 2016 State of the State Address and party response, delivered Jan. 21, 2016.