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The two vehicles the FBI is seeking information on in connection to the killing of two men at ComSta Kodiak last week. Photo FBI Jay Barrett/KMXT The FBI is looking for information about two vehicles that may belong to individuals involved in the shooting deaths of two men at ComSta Kodiak last week. FBI spokesman Darrin Jones in Anchorage says …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Over 100 high school athletes will be competing here in Kodiak this weekend. Both high schools from the state capital, Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain will be joined by Wasilla and Port Lions in events starting Friday afternoon. Events start at 3:30 p.m. with the Emerald Isle Co-Ed Relay Challenge. Kodiak Coach Marcus Dunbar says the event will be …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly breezed through its meeting last night in a little more than a half-hour. The light agenda didn’t generate much conversation, but during the last 10 minutes under assembly member comments, things picked up steam. Assemblyman Mel Stephens started the ball rolling by reiterating his feeling from a previous meeting that the Kodiak High …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Members of the Kodiak Youth Bowling League are in the state capital this week, and Representative Alan Austerman took a few minutes to have them recognized by members of the State House Thursday. They are: Joshua Morin, Dustin Swearingin, Brandan Pickett, Samuel Bennett, Hunter Blair, Elianah Micael, Tyler Skonberg, Tina Cruz, Dylan Cavanaugh, Joel Skonberg, Jack Bormuel, Jason …

Coming up this week, more on the truncated and disappointing Sitka Sound Sac Roe Herring season, Senator Begich is pushing a replacement program in case the J-1 Student Worker Visa Program is ended, and Alaska Seafood exports were way up last year. All that, plus don’t count on the Pile Bay Road this spring, and at least the Legislature passed …

Jay Barrett/KMXT iPhone fever is spreading. Two new cell phone carriers that serve Kodiak will start selling the world’s hottest phone starting tomorrow. ACS, now known as Alaska Communications, and GCI were among a small handful of regional phone companies around the nation that have added the iPhone to their inventory. Previously iPhone users in Kodiak were restricted to using …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Over 800 people gathered in hangar 3 on the Coast Guard base for the memorial honoring Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retiredCchief Petty Officer Richard Belisle today. Hopkins and Belisle were found dead in one of the buildings at Communications Station Kodiak by coworkers. Click through for more photos.

Jay Barrett/KMXT The longest-serving City of Kodiak employee, and the only parks and recreation director the city has ever known will be retiring in September. At that time, Ian Fulp will have been on the job for the better part of four decades. Fulp came to Kodiak as a Navy dependent when he was 15, and save for just a …