Kodiak Police responded to two incidents, troopers backed them up after one suspect resisted arrest. Local police say they’re also investigating an alleged theft of services and an assault.

A self-help housing project in Kodiak is one step closer to reality after the City Council passed a resolution to sell 6 acres of land near the municipal airport to the project. The council had committed to selling that land last fall, but was waiting on the project’s partners to secure the money for purchasing the property before transferring it.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is another victim of the Trump administration’s executive order cuts on March 15. The service provided Kodiak nonprofits hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years.

Kodiak’s herring fishery has been extended and broken into new seasons, for sac roe and for food and bait. That’s after the Alaska Board of Fisheries approved changes to the fishery at its statewide shellfish meeting in Anchorage March 11 - March 16.

A downed fiber optic line near Kodiak’s state airport caused a major traffic jam on Mar. 19 on the only road south of town. KMXT’s Davis Hovey talked to Reporter Brian Venua, who was one of dozens of drivers stuck in the jam.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of thousands of workers were unlawful.

Work has already begun on demolishing the units down to the frames and studs, with plans to put on temporary roofing and wrapping them in vapor barrier that has a warranty of about six months, but what the properties will be used for after abatement is done is still undecided.

The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, paid U.S. Coast Guard Base Kodiak a roughly four-hour visit today, but officials haven’t said why.

The company will reduce its operations immediately and says that if China’s lumber ban lasts much longer, the site will close permanently.

To compensate for lost wind power this year, Dan Menth, the CEO of Kodiak Electric Association said the association will feed more water from Terror Lake to its hydropower power plant.