Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska’s governor- and lieutenant governor- elect gathered members of their transition team in preparation for taking office a week from today. Bill Walker and Byron Mallott’s list numbers scores of names from every corner of the state, in 17 different categories. Four Kodiak residents were selected. Jeff Stephan, the executive director of the United Fishermen’s Marketing Association, was …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Due to some borough assembly members and staff being out of town, last week’s regular Borough Assembly meeting was canceled, but the governing body is planning to make it up tonight (Monday). A special meeting is scheduled at 6:30 for the assembly, with a lone agenda item, reviewing a letter to the Alaska Board of Fisheries, asking them …

  Lauren Rosenthal/KUCB Predicting storms in a fast-changing environment isn’t easy. But the National Weather Service is slowly working on a plan to improve their forecasts in Alaska — and across the country — by adding in the view from the ground.

  Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough School Board wrapped up a nine-month process of reviewing and amending the board communication policy at its meeting this week. The previous iteration of the bylaw required all communication directed to any school board member to go through the superintendent’s office first. And that was whether it came from parents, a citizen or …

  We have red and pink forecasts from opposite sides of the state; under-size crab and secret identities discovered in Unalaska, and some Fukushima radiation is detected for the first time on the West Coast. All that, and remembering a towing figure in Alaska seafood, coming up, on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KDLG’s Dave Bendinger in …

Jay Barrett/KMXT     One Kodiak man is dead and another under arrest after after a stabbing incident on Sunday.     Just before 3 p.m. the Kodiak Police Department received a 911 call about a stabbing at a residence on Ole Johnson Avenue. Upon arriving, according to the KPD, officers found 59-year-old Dennis Fathke on the floor and not …

The landing craft Polar Bear aground at the east end of Near Island on Monday. The day before it had gone aground near the west end of Near Island. Iver Holm photo  Jay Barrett/KMXT It was a rough couple of days for a landing craft in Kodiak Island waters. Sunday evening the 152-foot landing craft Polar Bear went aground on …

Ed Schoenfeld/CA The Alaska Marine Highway System won’t ban solo travel by children and teen-agers, at least for now. New rules announced earlier this month would have required anyone under 18 to travel with an adult. Chaperoned youth groups, such as school sports teams, were to be exempted. Spokesman Jeremy Woodrow says those rules won’t go into place until sometime …

Jay Barrett/KMXT     Kodiak senior Levi Thomet came in second at the National Northwest Regional cross-country races at Eagle Island State Park in Eagle, Idaho, on Saturday, as first reported by the Alaska Dispatch News.     Thomet was almost 25 seconds off the winning pace set by Spokane’s Tanner Anderson, who won with a time of 15 minutes 54.6 …

 Jay Barrett/KMXT     The Kodiak High School Bears volleyball team lost their opening round game in the class 4-A state championships while they were somewhere on the Seward Highway. After their Wednesday flight was canceled, the team hopped on the state ferry Tustumena for Homer and a connection to the road system. But in the best of conditions, it’s …