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Davis Hovey/KMXTFor the culmination of a week of events, roughly a dozen Kodiak residents from children to Elders gathered at the shore of the Near Island channel at Oscar’s Spit Monday evening, May 5, for a vigil and wreath ceremony. -
Davis Hovey/KMXTDuring this year’s cruise ship season, between May and the end of September, 25,663 cruise ship passengers are scheduled to visit Kodiak according to Discover Kodiak, after Hurtigruten Expeditions’ ships Roald Amundsen and Nansen recently canceled their port calls in Kodiak for this year.
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The school system's financial situation is only getting more dire, as politicians in Juneau scramble to figure out how to increase funding for schools. It’s submitting a draft budget to local government for approval this week. -
The first cruise ship of the summer season arrived in Kodiak today, April 29. Initially there were 30 cruise ships scheduled to visit the island this year, but one Norwegian company canceled two of its vessels’ sailings, bringing the current total to 26. -
According to the Alaska Earthquake Center, two separate 4.5 magnitude earthquakes occurred within 45 miles of Kodiak on two consecutive days, April 24 & 25. Those quakes were part of about ten that shook around Kodiak Island within the last five days. -
Kodiak’s options for licensed child care and after-school programming has shrunk in recent years. In most cases, the main obstacle locally has been finding enough state-licensed staff to operate and sustain some of the after-school programs. -
Kodiak’s St. Herman Harbor is in dire need of replacement. City officials took Alaska’s senior senator to tour its waterfront infrastructure on a recent stop to the island. -
Commercial fishing is inherently competitive. But there’s one event at Kodiak’s annual commercial fishing trade show where the competition is friendly – the Fisherman’s Showcase. It’s sort of a pentathlon race where captains and crew show off their skills this year. -
Doug Vincent-Lang told attendees of ComFish that he supports a bill to lift the state’s decades-old ban on finfish farming. He said if this presented a direct threat to commercial fishermen and wild stock fisheries, then he wouldn’t support it. -
The Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center is officially reopening to the public on Tuesday, April 29. The center, located downtown near the ferry terminal, has been closed for several months since at least mid-December. -
“We have the potential for a Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization in this Congress. That is something that has come up," Rep. Nick Begich III told a packed room of ComFish attendees at Kodiak's Best Western Inn on April 16. -
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, arrested a Philippine national in Kodiak this week, according to a post on X on April 16. The arrest comes as the Trump administration has ramped up deportation activities.
