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OBI Seafoods’ processing plant at Alitak on the southern tip of Kodiak Island. Photo courtesy of OBI Seafoods. OBI Seafoods has ended weeks of speculation about a wave of new COVID-19 cases  on Kodiak Island. Up until now, health officials would only say that these positive tests occurred in a remote part of the borough and were related to the …

Jared Griffin presents the Midday Report featuring the weekly update from the Kodiak Emergency Operations Center, and state and local stories on: 37 new cases of COVID-19 in Kodiak seafood processing industry, and OBI Seafood ends weeks of speculation about those new cases A construction barge collides with Juneau’s Douglass bridge President Trump responds to Pebble Mine controversy University of …

The recent spike in seafood industry cases of COVID-19 continues in the Kodiak Island Borough. 26 new cases were reported on Wednesday, one in the morning and 25 in the afternoon. 20200805 Positive Test Announcement – Case 34 – 58 The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization says they were identified in a remote area of the borough. All are non-resident …

Our guests Elsa DeHart, NP with public health in Kodiak, Dr. Curtis Mortenson – KCHC, Dr. Steve Smith – PKIMC, and Dr. Shana Theobald – KIACC talk with host Jared Griffin about convalescent plasma research, Kodiak’s current COVID-19 cases, and more.

This morning, the Kodiak Emergency Services Organization announced a new positive COVID-19 case. As with the recent uptick in cases in Kodiak, this new case is also a nonresident in the seafood industry. This brings Kodiak’s total number of cases to 33. Kodiak’s public health official, Elsa DeHart, gave an update on Kodiak’s case count on this morning’s (Wednesday morning’s) …

Jared Griffin presents the Midday Report featuring national headlines from NPR, and state and local stories on: An update on the Kodiak jogger who was attacked by a bear on Pillar Mt. A new COVID-19 case in Kodiak announced this morning Another round of funding from the small business emergency grant program for Kodiak Updates on Kodiak pink salmon and …

Yesterday evening’s (Tuesday evening’s) rocket launch was scrubbed at the Pacific Spaceport Complex near Pasagshak. Astra, an aerospace company based in California, was making a second attempt to launch their Rocket 3.1, a small rocket capable of delivering small satellites to a low orbit cluster of telecommunications satellites, after their first attempt on Sunday. That launch was canceled due to …

Jared Griffin talks with Nate Svboda, Area Wildlife Biologist with Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, and Joy Erlenbach, bear biologist with the National Wildlife Refuge, about the Kodiak brown bear.