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The crew of Air Station Kodiak and assembled guests congratulate the crew of the 109-foot Seattle-based fishing vessel Tuxedni on their award of the Gold Life Saving Medal presented by the Coast Guard at the Billiken Theater on Coast Guard Base Kodiak June 12, 2013, in Kodiak, Alaska. The Gold Life Saving Medal was created by an act of Congress …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Medicare and Medicaid are two frequently used federal programs, and they are the ones Congress most likes to fiddle with. As a result, lots of people have questions. Enter Judith Bendersky, a Health Manager 2 with the State of Alaska, who is in town to answer some of those questions. “The rules change. And then with the affordable …

Stephanie Joyce/KUCB In the wake of several high-profile cases of alleged scale-tampering by Bering Sea groundfish vessels, the National Marine Fisheries Service is revising its regulations for weighing fish at-sea. As KUCB’s Stephanie Joyce reports, the new measures are aimed at making it more difficult for vessels to underreport their catch.

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — A change of command ceremony is planned this week for the Coast Guard’s North Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center in Kodiak. The Coast Guard says Lt. Steve Hulse will relieve Lt. Conor Sullivan as commanding officer during the ceremony Friday. Sullivan, who has commanded the center since July 2010, will next be assigned aboard the Coast …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Two fisheries in the Kodiak Management Area continue to see a lot of sockeye salmon harvest, less than a week into the season. Cape Igvak and Wide Bay had over 93,000 reds caught through Tuesday, while the Karluk, Northwest Kodiak and Southwest Afognak area has registered nearly 86,000. On Tuesday, 23,682 sockeye were harvested in the KMA, bringing …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska Marine Highway’s request for proposals to cover about two weeks worth of runs between Homer and Kodiak has not produced the results it wanted. Ferry system spokesman Jeremy Woodrow says only one company – Bering marine Corporation of Anchorage – applied: “They were able to transport vehicles but no passengers, and because of that stipulation, the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT More good news for anglers looking to fight some salmon this summer – the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is increasing the bag and possession limit in the Buskin River Drainage for sockeye. The Department had already increased the bag limit on the Afognak River. Starting at 1 minute after midnight Wednesday morning, the bag limit for …

Hear the entire interview from Talk of the Rock here: Brianna Gibbs/KMXT After more than 13 years serving as the director of the A. Holmes Johnson Memorial Library, Joe D’Elia will say his goodbyes to the organization this month. He and the library will both be making moves to new locations, but while the library will only have to travel …