Codi Allen with the Kodiak Island Borough said they’ve been making repairs where the bears have gotten through, added electric wires and cleared brush around the fence line to deter bears. Nothing has worked so far.

Members of the the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee stopped in Juneau Monday to talk about expanding logging and mining in Southeast Alaska.

Lt. Commander Tyler Vieria, with the Coast Guard’s facilities design and construction center, gave KMXT an update on the ongoing construction work on Coast Guard Base Kodiak.

This morning on Aug. 22, the Alaska Aerospace Corporation confirmed in a press release that a successful government rocket launch occurred from the spaceport on Kodiak Island Thursday night.

A Public Affairs Specialist for the Navy Region Northwest, Liane Nakahara, said via email that the agency is working on various military construction projects in the area around Spruce Cape.

Aleutian tern populations statewide crashed by over 90 percent between 1975 and 2015. Now, many are finding better rearing conditions near the island's road system.

Alaska Marine Lines will no longer ship electric vehicles or plug-in hybrid vehicles to Alaska or Hawaii. Last week, the barge company announced the policy change in a statement due to the fire risk associated with shipping large lithium ion batteries.

Officials say the bear was spotted several times in a neighborhood just north of town before they decided to put it down on Monday.

The road to Fossil Beach through the spaceport was closed from 5 p.m. yesterday to 1 a.m. this morning due to what the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska calls “hazardous operations”. This closure is one of three so far that have been scheduled for this week.

Four candidates are running to be the next Mayor of the City of Kodiak, four others are running for two city council seats and five are running for the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly.