Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Oil filtration systems have been used for years on long haul rigs in the Lower 48. Two competing manufacturers of this technology had booths at ComFish earlier this month. The system filters out the very smallest particles from oil and leaves it so clean that one manufacturer claims his filter actually increases the quality of even brand new …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The FBI is seeking more information about a 2001 blue Honda CRV in connection with the April 12th double homicide at the Coast Guard Communications Station. Investigators want to talk with anyone who saw the vehicle on or near the roadway between the Kodiak State Airport and the ComSta between 7 and 7:18 on the morning of the …

Bales of shredded paper ready for shipment to Seattle processors. Photo courtesy of Threshold Recycling Jennifer Canfield/KMXT With Kodiak Island Borough taxpayers bracing to shell out nearly $11 million dollars for the landfill expansion, recycling is ready to take center stage. Ken Reinke is the executive director of Threshold Recycling. He runs a small facility on Von Scheele Way where …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Local gardening columnist Marion Owen and Threshold Recycling Executive Director Ken Reinke are today’s guests. We’ll talk about why recycling and composting on Kodiak is so important.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Local gardening columnist Marion Owen and Threshold Recycling Executive Director Ken Reinke are today’s guests. We’ll talk about why recycling and composting on Kodiak is so important.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Fishing vessel owners have a lot to be prepared for in 2013. Along with sweeping changes to NOAA’s observer program, in 2010 Congress passed extensive new safety regulations as part of the Coast Guard Reauthorization Act. Some of those regulations still need to be finalized and fishermen will be invited to participate in the drafting process. Several of …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Last summer four United States Senators- including Alaska’s Mark Begich- founded the Senate Travel and Tourism Caucus. Earlier this month Senator Begich visited Kodiak and talked briefly about how he and his colleagues are working to adapt U.S. travel visa policies to a changing world economy.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Over 800 people gathered in hangar 3 on the Coast Guard base for the memorial honoring Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retiredCchief Petty Officer Richard Belisle today. Hopkins and Belisle were found dead in one of the buildings at Communications Station Kodiak by coworkers. Click through for more photos.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT After generations of overharvesting, whale populations are generally recovering. Kate Wynne is a marine mammal specialist at the University of Alaska’s Marine Advisory Program. She says that an increasing number of whales is a great thing but it also means that fishermen must be more conscientious of them. The whales can get caught up in nets and suffocate.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT It’s that time of year when locals and tourists alike peer out to the water searching for the sometimes barely there signs of visiting whales.