The Kodiak Island Sportsman’s Association wants to establish a new lease with the borough to operate the island’s main outdoor firing range. The KISA also operates an indoor shooting range off of Monashka Bay Road, north of city limits. But last week on April 4 the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted no on a five-year lease for the Salonie Creek …

Federally qualified subsistence deer hunters in the Kodiak Archipelago will be able to take four black-tailed deer annually. Hunters are currently only allowed three deer between August and the end of January. That was part of the proposal passed by the Federal Subsistence Board at its meeting in Anchorage this week, April 2-5. Thursday, April 4, the Board took up …

Kodiak’s City Council and the Alaska Department of Fish & Game are partnering to repair the St. Paul Harbor Boat Launch Ramp in downtown Kodiak. The council formally authorized the cooperative agreement last week during its regular meeting on Thursday, March 28. According to city documents, the City of Kodiak and Fish & Game have been working together since 2021 …

Kodiak voters will decide if the next city manager will be able to live outside of the city, within 12 road miles. The proposed requirement change will be on the ballot for qualified voters at the upcoming election on Oct. 1. Currently, city code requires Kodiak’s city manager to reside within city limits. But during last week’s City Council meeting, …

Electric rates in Kodiak will increase by 12.5% starting April 1. That’s after the Kodiak Electric Association’s Board of Directors approved the utility provider’s first rate hike in 30 years at their meeting last week on March 28. That means the average resident will see a monthly bill later this month that costs about $12 more, according to the local …

Kodiak’s herring sac roe fishery opens April 1 at 9:00 a.m. with another year of massive harvest levels. But because of continued market problems, few local fishermen are expected to participate and a surplus of fish could be left in the water. This year’s guideline harvest level is more than 8,000 tons for Kodiak’s sac roe herring fishery. James Jackson …

The Kodiak’s Fisheries Workgroup wants to host informational forums to speed along fish-related action items for the City Council and Borough Assembly. That was one decision the joint municipal body agreed on Wednesday, March 27, at its first forum in over four years. The Kodiak Fisheries Workgroup last held a meeting in Dec. of 2019. The group has two representatives …

A retired U.S. Air Force Colonel is the new president and chief executive officer of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation, which oversees Kodiak’s Pacific Spaceport Complex on Narrow Cape. John Oberst was announced as the head of the state-owned corporation last month on Feb. 26. Oberst has 30 years of military service, during which he was mainly stationed at Joint Base …

The village of Old Harbor, on the southeast side of Kodiak Island, is one step closer to building a hydroelectric facility that would power the entire community of roughly 200 people. The rural energy project is getting a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help fund construction. Last month on Feb. 27 the department announced up …

Getting an up-close look at a variety of marine life at Kodiak’s touch tank just got a little easier. Visitors of the aquarium and touch tank at the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center on Near Island can now stop by KFRC without booking an appointment first. Walk-in hours were brought back last week on March 19, which haven’t been offered consistently …