Portrait of Margaret Roberts by Helen Simeonoff (watercolor, 1995) The Alutiiq community in Kodiak is mourning the passing of one of its most adored elders and culturebearers. Margaret Roberts was born in Kodiak in 1948. She passed away on Monday, according to the Alutiiq Museum, after decades of service to the Alutiiq community in Kodiak and Alaska Native people more …

The Imperial Immersion Suit by Survitec. The USCG says the survival suit may have a serious defect. (photo: Survitec Group) By Dylan Simard, KMXT News The Coast Guard has found a serious defect with a common brand of survival suits that may reduce their usefulness in emergencies.  Survival suits, also called immersion suits, are full-body protective suits that the Coast …

A Kodiak Public Health employee discusses health services offered at the Kodiak Public Health Center. The health center staff was not affiliated or an organizer of the rally. (Photo: Dylan Simard/KMXT) More than 100 people attended an abortion rights march in Kodiak over the weekend to protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Organizers said the crowd was about 130 …

KMXT’s Dylan Simard is joined by Alaska’s House Speaker Louise Stutes to discuss the state budget, which was recently signed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Stutes said she’d give the budget a B+ overall, although she was pleased with the way the budget shook out – especially for her home district of Kodiak, which received all requested money.

Windmills on Pillar Mountain. Listen to this story; Last month was the second hottest June on record in Kodiak., with five all-time high temperature records for individual days being broken. The all-time hottest June record was set nearly a century ago in 1936 at a 60.3 degree average temperature- June 2022 averaged out at 56.2 degrees. According to National Weather …

Early morning fog at Kodiak high school. Kayla Desroches / KMXT Listen to this story; The state budget signed by Governor Dunleavy in June sends $1.18 million to the Kodiak Island Borough School District. That was expected, according to the district’s chief financial officer Sandy Daws. But it doesn’t recoup KIBSD’s fund balance, which was drawn down $2 million this …

Listen to this story; Child care is hard to access in Kodiak, as it is around the United States. The Sun’aq Tribe in Kodiak is trying to address the problem; Registration is now open for the tribe’s new Aluttingcut child care program. The tribe opened the program amid a rise in demand for local childcare options. The Sun’aq Tribe in …

KMXT’s Dylan Simard is joined by Dr. Cyndy Mika, new superintendent for the Kodiak Island Borough School District, to discuss the district’s challenges and opportunities, as well as her personal calling to teaching.

Listen to this story; Kodiak is currently under a “moderate” risk of fire danger. That means it’s drier than normal and accidental fire could spark somewhat easily. Lee Finlayson is the chief of Bayside Fire Department, which is in the Kodiak Island Borough just outside of city limits. He says there’s currently no fireworks ban in Kodiak, although the dangers …

Listen to this story; The village of Ouzinkie on Spruce Island has an Orthodox church, and the far side of the island also has its own chapel over the grave site of St. Herman. But the three monks who live in the middle part of the island only have a small indoor chapel in their shared house. Father Andrew is …