Coming up this week, forget about the Jayhawks and the Tar Heels – the real March Madness could begin this week in Sitka Sound. Also, we get an update on Board of Fisheries actions, and the wide-ranging effects of The Blob. We had help from KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg, KDLG’s Molly Dishner in Dillingham, KUCB’s Greta Mart in Unalaska, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The former U.S. Coast Guardsman from Chesapeake, Virginia, charged with killing a colleague and injuring two other people on Cape Cod over a year ago, is scheduled to go to trial at the end of May. The accused and two victims were once stationed at Coast Guard Base Kodiak. The Cape Cod Times reports that Adrian Loya’s trial …

Coming up this week: lots of news about hatchery fish, Frankenfish and tsunami fish; also, a request to stop dragging in Unalaska Bay. All that and more, coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KDLG’s Hannah Colton in Dillingham, KRBD’s Leila Kheiry in Ketchikan, Northwest News Network’s Tom Banse in Newport, Oregon, KUCB’s Greta Mart in …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A long-time Kodiak fisherman has been selected by Governor Bill Walker to replace a likewise long-time local on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. The names of Theresa Peterson of Kodiak, along with Michael “Buck” Laukitis of Homer were forwarded to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce by the governor Wednesday. Peterson and Laukitis were nominated to replace Duncan …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Over a hundred Alaskans from around the state are in Anchorage this week for a joint meeting of all the Federal Subsistence Board Regional Advisory Council.  Pat Holmes, who sits on the Kodiak and Aleutian Island Subsistence R-A-C, spoke with KMXT’s Jay Barrett about the many issues being discussed between the various groups. Go to the Federal Subsistence …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Three Kodiak High School Students are in Nuuk, Greenland, this week, competing in the Arctic Winter Games. (http://awg2016.org/en) Krystal Fabricante and Shaun Walton will be competing as wrestlers and Art Alejandro will play on the Alaska boys volleyball team. The three appeared on the Derek Clarkston Show before they left for Greenland and shared their expectations. “The culture, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT It’s just about the halfway point in the Alaska State Legislature’s 2016 session. KMXT’s Jay Barrett spoke with House District 32 Representative Louise Stutes of Kodiak about what headway she sees being made in addressing Alaska’s budget shortfalls. Stutes will be returning to Kodiak Friday for the weekend, and is inviting residents to meet with her at her …

Coming up this week, lots of fishy things are happening in Juneau as the state legislature nears the half-way point of its 90-day session. A surprising number of chum salmon from Southeast are turning up as trawl bycatch in the Gulf and Bering Sea – but not nearly as many as from the other side of the International Date Line. …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak Republicans in House District 32 strongly turned out for Donald Trump in yesterday’s Presidential Preference Poll, according to figures released by the party. Trump had 140 of the 361 votes cast, or 39 percent. Ted Cruz had 95 votes to garner 26 percent, with Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and John Kasich rounding out the field with 15-, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT High winds gusting to 60 mph and more knocked electricity out for three large neighborhoods overnight. The Chiniak, Mill Bay and Monashka Bay areas lost power shortly after 2 a.m. The Kodiak Police Department issued an alert around 3 a.m. warning of multiple toppled trees and other debris in roadways. Some of that debris came from tipped garbage …