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Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska seafood officials came away from a meeting Thursday with Walmart executives in Arkansas pleased with the conversation about the sustainability of Alaska salmon. The company announced earlier this year that it would not source seafood unless it had the Marine Stewardship Council, or MSC, stamp of approval. Alaska salmon does not carry the MSC endorsement. KMXT reached …

The Alaska/Horizon Air Q400 aircraft, which will offer one flight a day between Anchorage and Kodiak starting in March, visited Benny Benson State Airport Tuesday. The Bombardier Q400 is a modernized version of the deHaviland Dash 8 which Era Aviation serves Kodiak. Brianna Gibbs/KMXT photo Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Alaska Airline’s Boeing 737 jets has served passengers flying between Kodiak and Anchorage …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Tonight continues the busy week of municipal government meetings with the city and borough coming together under the same agenda. The borough assembly will chair a joint work session with the city council and hear a fisheries analyst report, including a discussion about Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch management. Following that will be a discussion about city sales …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Kodiak’s only video rental store, Blockbuster, will be closing its doors in the near future, but not before selling everything in stock. Today kicked off the franchise’s closing sale, sending viewers home with videos, TV shows and video games for $15 or less. Lyle Phillips manages Kodiak’s Blockbuster and said the closing is nobody’s fault, it’s simply a …

Jay Barrett/ KMXT Shelikof Street in downtown Kodiak was closed for a time yesterday evening as the Kodiak Fire Department responded to a fire in a workshop owned by Pacific Seafoods. The building, at 330 Shelikof, is across the street from the small seafood processing plant. The fire department says the call came in just after 5:30 p.m. Firemen were …

Kodiak will get a glimpse of different cultures Saturday during the Media Action Film Festival, which will showcase the best documentaries from workshops over the past three years. KMXT News student intern Marina Cummiskey spoke with Media Action co-founder Marie Acemah for this week’s the Rock.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak Launch Complex isn’t located in the most accessible part of the island. It’s more than 35 miles of winding, two-lane highway from the nearest shipping port in Women’s Bay, and another five miles from the Kodiak Benny Benson State Airport. When equipment comes in, especially large equipment for a launch, the road is often completely shut …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Federal officials are looking into the suspicious death of a protected marine mammal, which washed up on the Pasagshak beach late last week. NOAA Fisheries investigator Michael Killary said a 300-pound female harbor seal was found dead with a wound to its head. “It looked like a bullet wound. But we picked it up and took it back …