Tuesday evening during a special session, which included an executive session, the council authorized the city attorney to negotiate an agreement with Randy Robertson.

According to Michael Bach, one of the race directors alongside Nick Kesling and Chad Pysher, nearly 70% of the runners were from off-island. 16 of those came from the Lower48, while a vast majority came from the Anchorage bowl or elsewhere on the road system in Alaska.

Alaska’s public schools will receive $500 more per student next year. It's the first permanent education funding increase since Gov. Mike Dunleavy took office, but he cut it again after the state's Legislature overrode a previous veto.

This year’s auction features 204 parcels of a mix of remote and road-accessible state land from across Alaska. For the first time that includes land located along the Kupreanof Strait on the northwest side of Kodiak Island.

This week we hear about Alaska students being part of a mass panic at the National Speech and Debate Association's tournament, Harbormaster Dave Johnson's charges were dismissed by the state, a Kodiak dog has parvovirus, the Griffin Memorial Hospital could be used for museum storage, state land is for sale on Kupreanof Strait for the first time, and Kodiak was part of the "No Kings Day" protests on June 14.

An "unidentified attendee" got on stage and interrupted a performer in Des Moines, Iowa, which led to the crowd evacuating. No major injuries were reported by the National Speech and Debate Association, however at least two Alaska teens were bruised in the rush.

The District Attorney in Kodiak, William Vitkus, dismissed the three misdemeanor charges against Johnson earlier this week, according to court records.

Ten fur seals and hundreds of fish washed up dead on a Pribilof beach last year. New research links the die-off to warming oceans.

The future of the former 18-bed hospital has not yet been decided. But at a work session last week, the Kodiak City Council agreed to have Wolf Architecture create concept designs for how the 85-year-old building could be used in the future.

If untreated, infected dogs face an over 90% fatality rate, owners should look for symptoms like vomiting, loss of appetite, or fever. It's unknown how any of the animals contracted the virus.