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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The J-1 Exchange Visitor Visa Program was established 50 years ago and initially was used to bring academics to the United States to conduct research or to teach. The program was intended to foster cultural exchange and eventually expanded to include au pairs, educators, medical professionals and participants in the Work and Travel USA program. After hundreds of …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Both chambers of the Alaska State Legislature gaveled their sessions closed early Monday morning, but even before the sunrise, Governor Sean Parnell had called them into a special session which will start tomorrow.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Ninety-seven libraries across the state are being equipped with video teleconferencing equipment. For some rural libraries the grant-funded equipment comes with super fast broadband internet. The Chiniak library held an open house on Saturday to celebrate the new technology which is paid for with an Online With Libraries grant funded by the state, the Rasmuson Foundation, the Bill …

Jay Barrett/KMXT There are many challenges facing the Bristol Bay Red King Crab, both long- and short-term. Bob Foy is the director of the Kodiak Lab of the National Marine Fisheries Service, which charts crab abundance in the Bering Sea.

Jay Barrett/KMXT While authorities remain tight-lipped about a double-homicide at the Coast Guard Communications Station Thursday morning, Alaska State Trooper vehicles were seen blocking access to a home in Bell’s Flats all weekend. Individuals in white Tyvek overalls were seen Sunday searching the house and area. Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins, a 41-year-old electronics technician, and Richard Belisle, a …

Victims of Thursdays shooting at the Kodiak Coast Guard Base Richard Belisle (second from left), and Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins (second from right), are shown in this July 2, 2011, photo along with Jim Wells (left) and Petty Officer 3rd Class Cody Beauford (right), as they work to erect a 120-foot communications antenna on Shemya Island. …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak City Council held its regular meeting last night.Here are a the highlights: The council passed a resolution that will put on this year’s election ballot a proposition that allows newly elected council members to begin their term the first Monday following an election. Last October, after council members Terry Haines and Randall Bishop were elected, the …

State Troopers are stationed outside the Kodiak Base Communications Station where two Coast Guard employees were killed Thursday morning. Jennifer Canfield photo Jay Barrett/KMXT Two Coast Guard employees assigned to Communications Station Kodiak were found dead Thursday morning, the victims of gunshot wounds. The Coast Guard is not releasing many details, and the FBI is now investigating the deaths. Base …