CLICK HERE for Agenda for Alaska Aerospace Corporation Board of Directors’ meeting Thursday. Kodiak residents will have an opportunity to meet this week with and ask questions of officials with the Alaska Aerospace Corporation and the Pacific Spaceport Complex this week. On tap are a number of public events on both Wednesday and Thursday. First up is a tour …

  Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Member Matt Van Daele and wife, Mary Ruskovich with daughter Mathilda. The family leaves next month so Ruskovich can take a police officer’s position in Idaho.   “Well, that was a bombshell.”  That is Borough Assembly Member Kyle Crowe who spoke Thursday evening’s regular borough assembly meeting, during assembly member comments. The bombshell?  Assembly member …

A memorial service will be held for Dr. Welby Jensen at 6:00 Thursday at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium. Jensen was killed last week when his 22 foot vessel overturned in Chiniak Bay. All are welcome to attend.

Gov. Bill Walker signs a bill making it easier for fishermen to get loans for their business.  The International Pacific Halibut Commission now has a member who comes from the sportfish industry.  Fish meal is big business in Alaska. Fish meal is another victim of the China trade wars. And finally, a Sitka sea lion takes in the town and …

Assembly meets at 6:30 p.m. Thursday The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly meets tonight (Thurs.) with three public hearings planned. Also on the agenda is an executive session to discuss legal strategies for compelling Alaska Aerospace Corporation to comply with borough land use ordinances. Two of the three public hearings deal with moratoriums on zoning enforcement for properties located in the …

A Kodiak man died on Thursday afternoon after his boat capsized in Chiniak Bay. His adult son was rescued by the Coast Guard after clinging to the overturned vessel for more than two hours. Alaska State Troopers confirm that Welby Jensen, age 60, of Kodiak, died in the boating accident which occurred midday on Thursday. According to the Trooper’s website, …

The Governor declares the Chignik fishery an economic disaster area. Normally, fishermen catch a million or so sockeye. This year they caught 128. Just 128. More bad news from southeast where the pink salmon harvest is the lowest in over four decades. If that wasn’t bad enough there are still those pesky Chinese tariffs. Ah, but we have something fun …

This week we look we have a special program for you. We’re looking at what the heck is happening with Alaska’s sockeye salmon this year. We talk with reporters in different regions of the state to see what’s doing with their area. This week on our special sockeye salmon round up on  the Alaska Fisheries Report.   A big thank …

This week we look at which regions of the state bring in the biggest fish bucks, and the results may surprise you. A huge mine that could cause big changes for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta leaps a major hurdle A Kodiak Island village hopes to entice residents back by rebuilding its fishing industry. And you got a great fishing photo? A …

The Yes for Salmon initiative passes a major hurdle and will appear—in part—on the November ballot. Togiak’s sockeye run may have been slow but it broke a new record. And while fishing is winding down in Bristol Bay there’s a lot going on elsewhere. Including a problem with over-escapement into Cook Inlet rivers. Yes, that’s too many fish up the …