Kodiak residents may have been startled Wednesday morning to see a higher than expected snowfall. Forecasts early Tuesday evening were calling for no more than an inch of rain and snow. Instead, by Wednesday morning three to four inches of snow sat heavily atop the Kodiak landscape. Mike Ottenweller is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage. “Kodiak, …

KMXT’s Dylan Simard is joined by Patrick Floyd, Betty Walters, and Terry Haines to discuss the enduring legacy of Carolyn Floyd and her work in Kodiak.  

The recent volcanic eruption in Tonga was significant- the explosion was heard along coastal Alaska. But for all the devastation that it caused, it wasn’t actually that big an eruption, compared to those of the last century. And it was a trifling eruption compared to Alaska’s Novarupta, which in 1912 was so large that it actually destroyed another mountain over …

KMXT’s Dylan Simard is joined by a panel of artists and art patrons to discuss the Rasmuson Individual Artist Program.

Health officials say it’s too early to be certain, but they’re seeing the same trend – local COVID-19 test positivity has dropped this week. As of a week ago, 30% of COVID tests were coming back positive. That number has dropped to 25%. Shana Theobald is a doctor at the Kodiak Island Ambulatory Care Clinic. “It does seem to be …

The Kodiak Island Borough School District is determined to return to in-person learning, but it isn’t proving as easy as was hoped. The school district initially planned to return to having all classes in person on Tuesday, but staff shortfalls have delayed the elementary school’s reopening until next week. The middle school and high school will be returning to in …

Listen to this story; Raymond LeGrue, owner of Henry’s Great Alaskan Restaurant, says that keeping regular hours for his restaurant during a pandemic has been a challenge. “This most recent episode, when we restricted our hours, we had some people that were sick, but tested positive. We had several other employees that went up to get tested,” LeGrue said. He …

The Kodiak Island Borough School district announced Wednesday in a letter to parents that they will be returning to remote-learning, effective Thursday, with the hope of returning to in-person learning on Tuesday, January 18th. This comes as COVID cases within the Kodiak Island Borough continue to rise to unprecedented levels. The Emergency Operations Center Wednesday reported 174 new cases of …

In the first lowdown of 2022, join Mike Wall, Jared Griffin and Dylan Simard of KMXT as they speak with Dr. Evan Jones, Dr. Shana Theobald, and Providence COVID incident commander Amy Corder about the Omicron variant, and what it means for Kodiak.

This Talk of The Rock features a return of the journalist’s round table, where we give you a peek under the hood at our process and what’s going on in the KMXT newsroom. Hosted by Jared Griffin, and KMXT reporters Kirsten Dobroth and Dylan Simard.