On today’s Midday Report with host Brian Venua: Closely following the arrival of Kodiak’s first cruise ship of the season, the second ship which is called the Seven Seas Explorer, will arrive on Tuesday. KUCB reports on a local food program the Tribe of Unalaska is launching that will help food security in the community. And KBBI’s Jamie Diep breaks …

This year’s conference for the Alaska chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will be held in Kodiak. That’s a national society for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the American Revolution. The annual statewide conference rotates between five different cities, where the organization’s chapters are located. It hasn’t been hosted on the island …

Kodiak’s City Council decided not to extend City Manager Mike Tvenge’s contract at its regular meeting on Thursday, April 11. Tvenge will retire at the end of this month on April 30 and the City of Kodiak plans to rely on current staff in the interim until a new manager is hired. Council members were expected to postpone voting on …

Construction can now begin on Kodiak’s new fire station after the City Council approved a contract with Osborne Construction Company on Thursday night, April 11. The company, which has offices in Alaska and Washington state, is slated to break ground on the project on Mill Bay Road as soon as the i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed. Osborne …

Kodiak’s fire departments jointly responded to a structure fire Saturday evening, which required monitoring into Sunday morning. No injuries or fatalities were reported and the cause of the blaze is under investigation. Fire Protection Area No. 1, also known as the Bayside Volunteer Fire Department, received a report of a fire at 3266 View Crest Lane – in the vicinity …

Kodiak Island’s representatives in the Alaska State Legislature discussed some of the potential relief coming to fishermen on the final day of this year’s ComFish trade show on Saturday, April 13. State Sen. Gary Stevens, who was joining via Zoom, told attendees he wants to create a legislative task force to study long term solutions for changes happening within the …

Persistent outages of weather observation stations across Alaska have caused problems for rural communities, aviators and climatologists for years. Now the Alaska State Legislature is hoping to spur the federal government to do something about it. SJR20, a joint resolution currently working through the Alaska State Legislature would urge the U.S. Congress to address Automated Weather Observing System, called AWOS, …

Turnagain Marine Construction, an Anchorage based company, is accepting public input on the replacement design for St. Herman Harbor. Thursday, April 11, the company revealed two potential concepts for the overhaul of Kodiak’s largest boat harbor during the ComFish trade show, which started in 1980 as a marine trades fair held in a National Guard wall tent. The City of …

Kodiak’s city manager will resign from his full time position at the end of this month, after seven plus years on the job. City Manager Mike Tvenge said he is willing to sign a contract as the interim manager starting in May. A sticking point to that contract being finalized though, is figuring out how much Tvenge will be paid. …

For the first time, money from ticket sales and revenue coming in from passengers using the Alaska Marine Highway System, known as toll credits, will fund ferry and marine highway projects across the state. That’s in part due to recent eligibility changes within a Federal Highway Administration program. Last week on April 4, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public …