Officials with Alaska’s Department of Transportation are looking into cracking down on parking at Kodiak’s state airport. Specifically, the department is looking at instituting tickets or fees so more people are able to use the limited amount of spaces.

While none of the catcher-processor's boats fish near Kodiak, they still set aside $12,500 for the region. Ten nonprofits received grants in the most recent cycle, the next one will be in the spring of 2025.

Among the roughly one hundred proposals on the Alaska Board of Fisheries agenda at its upcoming meeting next month are a handful focused on further restricting or closing the state-managed pollock trawl fishery in Prince William Sound. Now, a Kodiak organization is trying to drum up support for local trawlers, and oppose the proposals.

Kodiak’s main public event space is rebranding and changing its focus. The Kodiak Harbor Convention Center building downtown at 211 West Rezanof Drive is being renamed the Kodiak Harbor Center.

More specifically, Thursday was the warmest November 21st in local climate history, which goes back to 1913, when a record high temperature of 58 degrees was recorded at the Kodiak Airport.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving the Kodiak Economic Development Corporation $80,000 to foster and expand mariculture in the Kodiak Archipelago. This funding will help the corporation develop a business plan for 13 kelp farms in Southwest Alaska.

An explosion on a Kodiak beach injured at least eight Kodiak teenagers on Nov. 10 – five of them seriously enough to be medevaced to Anchorage. In an interview from her hospital room, one of the victims described the aftermath – and her hopes and worries about her recovery.

Hundreds of commercial salmon fishermen around Kodiak Island opted not to fish this past summer. That’s according to data released by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Nov 5. Limited participation, a lack of salmon, and additional market factors created one of the lowest valued commercial seasons on record.

Results are almost finalized for the General Election, but Kodiak Island farmers still have another election to vote in.Two Alaskans are running for one seat on the southern Farm Service Agency County Committee.

Students at Kodiak High School heard from a U.S. Supreme Court justice on Friday, Nov. 15. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the students how the skills she picked up from theater and debate aided her career.