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Jay Barrett/KMXT The executive director of Alaska CHARR and some of his staff are in Kodiak this week making arrangements for the organization’s annual convention, which will be held here at the end of September. Dale Foxx expects about 100 representatives from the restaurant, hotel, bar and liquor store industry to attend. He’s here this week talking with Kodiak CHARR …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A Pier III update, ambulance purchase presentation and nonprofit grant requests are just a few of the many items on the Kodiak City Council’s work session agenda tonight. Last month the council passed the 2014 budget, which included an ambulance and fire engine purchase. Tonight the council will hear about those purchases, and get an update on the …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Today on Talk of the Rock we’ll hear about the future of science, or to be more specific, future scientists. Three high school students from St. George Island were in Kodiak for the past few days to learn about different research methods being used by NOAA, UAF and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The three students …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Today on Talk of the Rock we’ll hear about the future of science, or to be more specific, future scientists. Three high school students from St. George Island were in Kodiak for the past few days to learn about different research methods being used by NOAA, UAF and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The three students …

Lauren Rosenthal/KUCB As KMXT reported last week, an Air Station Kodiak helicopter transported a team of Army explosive experts to a remote beach near Chignik to examine a suspicious bomb that washed up onshore. On paper, it was a standard assignment for the Army’s explosive ordnance disposal team. But as KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal reports, the case still managed to turn …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Road Service Area No. 1 has a new road maintenance, repairs, snow removal and sanding contract. Last Tuesday the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly unanimously approved the contract with the lowest bidder, AIMS Maintenance. The decision to hire AIMS was about three weeks in the making, and came after differing views between borough staff and Road Service Area No. …

House Districts 31 (purple) and 32 (rust) make up Senate District P. Jay Barrett/KMXT The concept plan offered by the redistricting board swaps Bristol Bay and a large swath of the lower Kuskokwim area for a big chunk of the Kenai Peninsula in a new Senate District P, which would include Kodiak Island. The proposed House District 31 would stretch …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last week the Department of Fish and Game issued catch increases for sockeye salmon in two Kodiak area rivers. The Dog Salmon River drainage and the Saltry Cove drainage bag limits increased from five fish per day to 10. Earlier this summer the department increased the bag limit on the Buskin River from two fish per day to …