State lawmakers have ordered their professional, nonpartisan auditors to examine the Alaska Board of Fisheries’ procedural actions going back to October 2023.

Four Kodiak residents applied to fill an open seat on the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly left vacant by Dave Johnson earlier this summer. Thursday night, July 16, the Borough Assembly interviewed all four candidates and selected one of them to fill the seat until the municipal election in October.

Local scientists aren't sure yet what caused these whales' deaths. At least three out of the four are gray whales.

Eligible voters must be at least 18 years-old, a U.S. citizen and an Alaska resident, living in the district they want to vote for, at least 30 days before the election. You can check your voter registration status online.

Brigman attended Monday's regular meeting virtually from Tennessee, where he was attending a professional development conference.

All bycatch data from federally managed pollock trawl and groundfish fisheries in the state are now available in one place. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game recently launched a bycatch portal on its website years after it was recommended by the governor’s bycatch task force at the end of 2022.

In Kodiak, experts say a lack of food resources could make bears more likely to initiate conflict this summer

Property tax bills are being sent out by the Kodiak Island Borough on behalf of the city and borough after both municipalities set tax rates for the new fiscal year that started on July 1.

Fishermen can harvest nearly 400,000 scallops in Alaska waters this year

Two years after the last ballot proposition failed, Kodiak’s city voters will once again decide if future city managers will be required to live within city limits or not. That’s after the City Council agreed to move forward with a ballot proposition to change the manager’s residency requirements last month.