Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak girls swim team won every race, and 11 of 12 events, at the Region Three Championships over the weekend in Valdez on their way to securing their second straight team title. The Kodiak boys, which had won four of the last five titles, just missed winning another, losing to Wasilla by one point. The Kodiak girls …

Jay Barrett/KMXT 0 < ![endif]--> When the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly members sat down at their work session last night, almost all of them, for the first time, had their new H-P Notebook computers in front of them.

The tail of a young humpback whale entagled in fishing gear. Photo by Bree Witteveen. Jay Barrett/KMXT The young humpback whale entangled in fishing gear in Uyak Bay has been freed. But as Bree Witteveen says in this interview with Jay Barrett, the whale’s troubles were greater than first thought.

Casey Kelly/KMXT From KMXT in Kodiak, this is the Alaska Fisheries Report. Coming up this week… Reaction to the Ted Stevens guilty verdict from fishing communities and fishermen. The Coast Guard and NTSB begin hearings into the fatal sinking of the F/V Katmai. And, IPHC Executive Director Bruce Leaman tours Southeast communities. Those stories and more on this week’s Alaska …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and the Kodiak City Council updated each other on their projects – joint and otherwise – at a combined work session last night. Sludge disposal, Baranof Park improvements, joint fishery committees and the fish and game headquarters project were all on the table.

Jay Barrett/KMXT A 31-year-old deer hunter was rescued Tuesday afternoon after being mauled Sunday by a Kodiak brown bear and her two cubs. Matthew Sutton of Great Falls, Montana, and his partner were hunting in Viekoda Bay, about 25 miles west of Kodiak City when the attack happened. Fish and Game wildlife biologist Larry Van Daele said Sutton was alone …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Singer-songwriters Peter Mulvey and Patty Larkin are performing tonight at the Orpheum Theater as part of the KMXT Fall Concert Series. Both were on KMXT’s Talk of The Rock with Jay Barrett this afternoon.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Singer-songwriters Peter Mulvey and Patty Larkin are performing tonight at the Orpheum Theater as part of the KMXT Fall Concert Series. Both were on KMXT’s Talk of The Rock with Jay Barrett this afternoon.

Jay Barrett/KMXT A pair of large whales were spotted today (Monday) entangled in the same buoy line in Uyak Bay. The whales were first seen by Kevin Van Hatten, a biologist and pilot for the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. He said the whales were performing something of a tug-of-war, trying to swim away from each other. Uyak Bay is about …

Jay Barrett/KMXT When the Alaska Legislature set the current budget early this year, the price of oil was sky-high and heading higher. Alaska crude peaked at nearly 150-dollars per barrel in July. The budget was put together assuming a price of 85-dollars per barrel, but Juneau Senator Kim Elton said last week that the price of a barrel of oil …