Mouth of the Buskin River. Photo courtesy of the Department of Natural Resources Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Sun’aq Tribe has been awarded a $200,000 grant to conduct an 18-month study of declining salmon returns in the Buskin River. The grant is one of two awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Alaska tribes.

Elizabeth Meister and Dan Collison Last fall independent radio producers Elizabeth Meister and Dan Collison visited Kodiak. They’ve produced documentary pieces for National Public Radio and This American Life. While here they visited Old Harbor and spoke with Mary Haakanson and the Reverend Gregory Parker- of Three Saints Russian Orthodox church- about the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Here’s a short …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Alaska State Troopers responded last Saturday to a disturbance on Tugidak Drive. At 12:30 a.m. a 16-year-old Kodiak male was found to be highly intoxicated, under the influence of both alcohol and methamphetamine. Troopers cited the youth and released him to the custody of his mother who then transported him to Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center.

The weir is operated by two to four ADF&G Commercial Fisheries Division employees from mid-May to late September. Photo courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has reduced the limits for king salmon on the Karluk and Ayakulik rivers. Fishermen will be allowed one king salmon longer than 20 …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guest is President and CEO of Koniag Incorporated Will Anderson. Anderson discusses everything from land use and 8 (a)contracting to Koniag’s business endeavors and strategy to engage non-shareholder descendants.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guest is President and CEO of Koniag Incorporated Will Anderson. Anderson discusses everything from land use and 8 (a)contracting to Koniag’s business endeavors and strategy to engage non-shareholder descendants.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Business is going better than expected for Kodiak’s Sun’aq Tribe. After two years of steadily increasing sales for its fish processing and distribution business Kodiak Wildsource, Program Services Director Frank Peterson Jr. says the tribe expects profitability ahead of schedule.

Casey Kelly/KTOO With less than three weeks remaining in the legislative session, it’s looking unlikely lawmakers will pass a bill to re-establish the Alaska Coastal Management Program. A citizens’ initiative setting up program has been approved for a statewide vote later this year. But lawmakers could pre-empt the measure with "substantially similar" legislation. Kodiak Republican Alan Austerman – the House …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Earlier this week Luke Fulp, finance director for the Kodiak Island Borough School District, painted a somewhat rosier picture for residents concerned about the $3.5 million deficit that the district is facing. Fulp says Main Elementary is safe from closure due in part to the Legislature’s increased support for education funding. Concerns about closure of the school arose …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Earlier this week Luke Fulp, finance director for the Kodiak Island Borough School District, painted a somewhat rosier picture for residents concerned about the $3.5 million deficit that the district is facing. Fulp says Main Elementary is safe from closure due in part to the Legislature’s increased support for education funding. Concerns about closure of the school arose …