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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Halibut season has started, with higher quotas. Ferries will resume service to British Columbia. And Petersburg residents worry about friends and relatives in Ukraine.

Alaska’s halibut season opened Sunday, Mar. 6. Doug Duncan is a fisheries management specialist with NOAA fisheries. He said that after several years of decline, this year’s catch limit is up by over 5.7% from last year. “The fish that were born in 2012 are beginning to show up, and it’s looking like that was a pretty good year for …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Aleutian rats are posing big problems for birds. The House Finance Committee has proposed its own budget. And a plane has crashed on the Iliamna ice.

Social media lit up earlier this week with photos Kodiak residents had snapped of the northern lights rippling overhead. Catching a glimpse of the aurora borealis in the northern part of Alaska isn’t that unusual. It’s a little less common further south, but the island could see another light show over the next few days.  “I know that for this …

Kodiak Island’s school board voted to hire a new superintendent in February. Cyndy Mika has been chosen out of a field of three candidates. She replaces Larry LeDoux who is retiring in June. Cyndy Mika comes to Kodiak by way of Little Elm, Texas. She has 15 years of administration experience in the Little Elm Independent School District, and is …

Kodiak City’s fire station is looking for a new home. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) The city of Kodiak is getting closer to replacing its current firehouse. City officials have picked a location for the new station and an architecture firm to design the building, but with a price tag that’s expected to be somewhere around $18 million, finding the funding …

Listen to this story; Orthodox Christians across the globe are watching the war in Ukraine with horror; not just because of the brutality of the invasion by its Russian neighbor, but because it pits two predominantly Russian Orthodox nations against each other. Father Innocent Dresdow is the priest at the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak. He says that the reaction …

Kodiak is slated to see its first cruise ships since 2019. Nick Szabo is the resident port agent for Kodiak with Alaska Maritime Agencies. He says there’s currently 15 large and small cruise ships scheduled to call in Kodiak. That’s unless COVID-19 disrupts those plans. “It just depends, if we have another variant that is as severe as some of …

KMXT’s Dylan Simard is joined by Katie Oliver, Lissa Woodbury Jensen and Jerimiah “Doc” Meyers to discuss the upcoming performance of The Little Mermaid.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Kodiak’s Waterfront will have a plan. Alaska’ Senators speak out on Ukraine. And the Haines Winterfest features chicken curling.