Gov. Mike Dunleavy appointed Fernando Escobar as the next student regent to the University of Alaska Board of Regents on April 15. Escobar was born and raised in Kodiak and is attending the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The museum's board and staff reviewed how the last year has been, as well as looked at potential challenges in the near future.

Town elementary schedules and bus routes are shifting, cell phones were banned in the high school during instruction, and the district is opening honors classes for both middle and high schoolers this year. Classes start on Tuesday, Sept. 2.

Codi Allen with the Kodiak Island Borough said they’ve been making repairs where the bears have gotten through, added electric wires and cleared brush around the fence line to deter bears. Nothing has worked so far.

Members of the the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee stopped in Juneau Monday to talk about expanding logging and mining in Southeast Alaska.

Lt. Commander Tyler Vieria, with the Coast Guard’s facilities design and construction center, gave KMXT an update on the ongoing construction work on Coast Guard Base Kodiak.

This morning on Aug. 22, the Alaska Aerospace Corporation confirmed in a press release that a successful government rocket launch occurred from the spaceport on Kodiak Island Thursday night.

A Public Affairs Specialist for the Navy Region Northwest, Liane Nakahara, said via email that the agency is working on various military construction projects in the area around Spruce Cape.

Aleutian tern populations statewide crashed by over 90 percent between 1975 and 2015. Now, many are finding better rearing conditions near the island's road system.

Alaska Marine Lines will no longer ship electric vehicles or plug-in hybrid vehicles to Alaska or Hawaii. Last week, the barge company announced the policy change in a statement due to the fire risk associated with shipping large lithium ion batteries.