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Today on the midday report with host Brian Venua: Alaska’s Board of Game made some new decisions regarding trapping, we hear from the Bristol Bay Sustainability Summit, and new reports suggest the Alaska Legislature is short $680 million from its initial budget plan. The Board of Game meets at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Riley …

Host Pam Foreman talks with Marion Owen about gardening in Kodiak. Marion shares some tips on how to maintain healthy soil and plants in Kodiak’s climate – whether you garden in a hoop house or a container – and what you can be doing now to get things going in the garden.

Kodiak residents experienced a power outage Monday night that left thousands in the dark for about two hours. According to a press release from the Kodiak Electric Association, a critical piece of substation equipment called a circuit switcher failed, shutting down the whole system.  The power went out at Safeway and left customers to either purchase their groceries with cash …

Today on the midday report with host Kirsten Dobroth: the Alaska Marine Highway System has a new director, new data shows an rise in homicides in the state over the last decade, and a collective approach to healing after a fatal polar bear attack in the village of Wales.  

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Comfish Alaska is featured, with reports from KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth on presentations from Alaska’s Congressional Delegation.  

The salmon shark dissection was a fan favorite event at Kodiak’s commercial fishing trade show, ComFish. It started before that at Kodiak’s Whale Fest when it was led by longtime Kodiak resident Gil Bane. This year, the dissection returned after a pandemic-induced hiatus. No sharks were available for last weekend’s event, so organizers used an inky alternative instead. The crowd …

This week on the Midday Report with host Terry Haines: There will be no sac roe herring fishery in Togiak this year. As Southeast Alaska otter populations have grown, so have calls to loosen the strict federal rules protecting them. And after losing half their population, humpback whales in Glacier Bay are rebounding. Whales in Glacier Bay (Wikimedia Commons)  

Petro Marine Services, the parent company of the gas station chain Petro Express, has released more information on issues with contaminated fuel that was reported over this past month at its Kodiak location near Safeway.  The Petro Express near Safeway in Kodiak. This was the location affected by the strange liquid. March 21, 2023. Brian Venua/KMXT The company’s general manager, …

Kodiak residents will rally in support of healthy relationships and against domestic abuse on Thursday, March 23, as part of the Choose Respect March. It’s the first march since before the pandemic; it starts at 12 p.m. at the Sun’aq Tribal Hall in downtown Kodiak.  The Kodiak Women’s Resource and Crisis Center is one of the organizers of this year’s …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock: KMXT’s news director Kirsten Dobroth is joined by Rep. Louise Stutes during her visit to Kodiak for ComFish to discuss progress with the budget, the Alaska Marine Highway System, and what a state Bycatch Board might look like in the future.