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Red eye jellyfish. Flickr / Nathan Rupert Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak wants to know how the recently completed Kodiak Airport runway extensions are impacting marine life. If at all. Last month they wrapped up the study’s biological element for this summer. Researchers examined the colonization of the armor rock the state installed to bolster the runway safety …

Brian Mattson, with the 396 pound halibut caught near Petersburg. (photo/Abbey Collins) Coming up this week, we find out how the humpies are running in Southeast, a Sitka chef will represented Alaska in the annual national seafood cook-off, and it may not have been the biggest halibut ever, but if you had a barn that needed a door, the halibut they …

Example of searchlight, located on Rysäkari Island off coast of Finland. Photo via Wikipedia Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Military History Museum in Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park is on the cusp of acquiring a 1941 searchlight. Volunteer Chuck Meitle, who has flown up from Oregon for the last five summers with his wife Nancy to volunteer at the park, says …

Patrick Saltonstall stands in front of site. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository is in the midst of Community Archaeology, a program which reaches out residents to help dig archaeological sites in the Womens Bay region. The volunteers have the option to meet at the museum in the morning and head out there with staff for …

Steam Trunk owner Mike Johnson. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT A new business in Kodiak is proving popular with those who enjoy flavor in vapor form.  A vape shop opened earlier this month on Marine Way, and the owner says he’s already gotten a lot of customers. Vaping, or the inhalation of vapor through a device, has been called a healthier …

Patrick Saltonstall holds Alutiiq knife. Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum & Archeological Repository Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum’s Community Archeology program led to the discovery of a knife this week. Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology, Patrick Saltonstall, says they’re in the fourth year of digging the Kashevaroff site at Salonie Creek, and focus on a different spot each time. He …

Blythe Brown (right) and Kelly Krueger hold up crayfish they sampled from Buskin river. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak and the Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District have teamed up to determine just how much of a presence one invasive species has in the Buskin River. Blythe Brown, project coordinator with the Conservation District, says her …

This week, two crews are safe after their fishing vessels meet their fate in the past week, we have king salmon news from the upper Yukon and chum salmon news from the lower river, and more, coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. Thanks to KMXT’s Kayla Desroches for sitting in while I was away for a few weeks. We …

The factory trawler Alaska Juris lists to port in this still from a U.S. Coast Guard video. One of three inflatable liferafts can be seen near the Juris’ bow. Several good Samaritan vessels came to the aid of 46 crewmembers from a factory trawler that started taking on water Wednesday in the Bering Sea near the island of Kiska. The …

Bill Cope (right) and a butcher shop employee pose in 20th Century Market in downtown Juneau around 1950. Photo courtesy of Violet Cope and featured on cover of Alaska Economic Trends, July 26, Volume 36 number 7. Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough has the highest rent in the state. That’s according to a publication from the Alaska Department of …