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The Alutiiq Museum has announced Lynn Walker as its volunteer of the year for her work supporting the museum’s renovation. Walker was commended for providing insight on display designs and local history as well as moving objects and art during construction.
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According to city documents, the St. Herman Harbor replacement, a multi-phase project, is now estimated to cost between $73 and $99 million. Roughly a quarter of that amount, or $23 to $33 million, is needed to complete phase one of the project.
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Kodiak residents took part in a President's Day protest on Feb. 17, expressing frustration at the federal government – especially at President Donald Trump and his advisors. It was just one of many similar events taking place across the state and country.
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Alaska Aerospace said in its lawsuit, filed in federal court on Thursday, that the cost to repair the damages and cleanup from last year's failed rocket test at the spaceport had reached at least $3.1 million.
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Timothy and Hillarie Gossett of team #26 are the son and daughter-in-law to Tim Gossett Sr., a longtime Kodiak resident and fisherman. Both have finished the race before – Hillarie in 2023 where she took 14th place and Timothy last year when he finished in 7th.
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This year’s harvest, for both pot vessels and jig vessels, is 5.6 million pounds. Half of that, 2.83 million pounds, is allocated for pots. The season for fishermen who use jig gear started at the beginning of the year.
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For the last ten years, since the 2015-2016 session, state Senator Gary Stevens of Kodiak has been trying to raise the minimum age in Alaska to smoke tobacco and e-cigarettes from 19 to 21.
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Throughout last year the nonprofit Kodiak Island Housing Authority was working with RurAL CAP and Koniag, Inc. on a self-help housing project in Kodiak. The organizations were waiting to find out if USDA would award them a million dollars to go ahead with the build.
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Host Jared Griffin speaks with KMXT's Senior Reporter Brian Venua about his recent trip to document KIBSD's teacher recruitment in the Philippines.
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The Near Island Development Plan of 2017 lays out three paths: minimal, moderate or maximum development. The city council never picked one of those paths; it has not passed a formal resolution yet.
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A system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.
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The borough says there are about 130 short-term rentals within the Kodiak road system, which does not include the separate designation of “lodges” nor short-term rentals in communities off the road system. The borough doesn’t know how many owners of the short-term rentals live on site.