Last month the department announced a harvest level of 5.3 million pounds of fish for the Kodiak area. But the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says that quota is not based on the latest stock assessment data, which indicates the number of Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska is increasing.

Various species of birds rarely seen in Kodiak were observed during the 2025 Christmas bird count on Dec. 14. According to Bill Pyle, the coordinator for the local Audubon Society count, those species included snow goose and trumpeter swans.

The Shelikof Lodge which featured the Island Room, was established less than two years after the devastating 1964 earthquake and tsunami. When the Kodiak hotel first opened its doors, Ardingers was a House of Music, Sid and Martin Urie had just opened a new bar called Solly’s, and it was the heyday of the King Crab fishery in Kodiak.

Earlier this summer more than a dozen Kodiak brown bears were causing problems at the Kodiak Island Borough’s landfill. Most of those bears have now been cleared out of the landfill as winter has set in and many are starting to hibernate.

A 37-year-old Kodiak man, who has been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Washington state for months, had a toe amputated after advocates say he was denied adequate medical care while in ICE custody.

The Kodiak Island Borough School District is considering closing another elementary school to address a multimillion dollar budget deficit for next school year, fiscal year 2027.

Total snowfall observations from the local wastewater treatment plant were unavailable by the publishing of this story, but one spotter for the National Weather Service reported 8.5 inches fell by Sunday afternoon, Dec. 7.

Five years after a Pacific cod fishery disaster in the Gulf of Alaska, 2020, federal financial relief is finally being distributed to some of the affected municipalities, like Kodiak. The Kodiak City Council formally accepted $156,158.40 on Thursday, Dec. 4.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has reopened public comment on President Donald Trump’s executive order on “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.”

For years Kodiak residents and farmers have been growing small fruit trees in their greenhouses. But now that effort has spread in earnest to communities around the archipelago, including in Port Lions.