Newsflash

The Kodiak Island Borough School District [KIBSD] could face a deficit of millions of dollars this year without an increase in state education funding.  Cyndy Mika is the district’s superintendent. She said they’re still putting together priorities for a first draft of a budget for the 2024-2025 school year.  “This way of doing it, where everything’s up in the air, …

Kodiak Island’s invasive crayfish population has reached levels that make it too difficult to completely eradicate. That’s according to a biologist running a program to remove signal crayfish from Buskin Lake. Daniel Smith is the biologist with the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak. He says signal crayfish were first observed in the Buskin River more than two decades ago in 2002, …

Updated Jan. 10, 2023.  Trident Seafoods will participate in Kodiak’s upcoming Tanner crab fishery, which starts Monday. That’s despite the company announcement last month that it will sell its Kodiak processing plant and that they would operate “a significantly scaled-back winter season.” At the time of Trident’s announcement, officials would not confirm which marine species the Kodiak facility would buy …

More than 5.5 million pounds of Pacific cod can be caught within state waters during this year’s A season in the Kodiak area. That’s over a million more than 2023’s harvest level.   According to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Kodiak, three boats have already registered for the fishery, one week after the season opened at the …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Attorneys delivered oral arguments yesterday in a perjury case for a retired Homer judge. An Anchorage home invasion last night led to a shootout that left a father and child wounded. And Chugach Electric says there’s been an excessive number of power outages this winter in the communities of Cooper Landing and …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Sixteen-year-old Emily Robinson won the Knik 200 Sled Dog Race yesterday. A tame moose that escaped from a wildlife center during moose season has returned. And a federal judge has ruled that a civil rights case against the City of Fairbanks can proceed to trial. A bull moose.

The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly approved its capital improvement project priorities list at its meeting last night (Thurs, Jan. 4).  The St. Herman Harbor Infrastructure Replacement project tops the list, and the borough is asking for an estimated $5 million from the state going into the 2024 legislative session. St. Herman Harbor is owned by the City of Kodiak, and …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Challenges continue over books on shelves in the Ketchikan Public Library. The Legislature will consider bills that would seek to expand capacity for renewable energy. And taprooms can now stay open one hour longer! A new solar farm located in Houston, Alaska.  

The Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley started the year by towing a fishing vessel in distress to Adak on Monday.  The crew of the Aleutian No. 1, a 127-foot boat, reported to Watchstanders on Dec. 28 that its propeller was stuck after getting caught on some fishing gear. That left the vessel adrift in the middle of the Bering Sea.  …

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Its the second equally shameless installment of the year in the rear view mirror.