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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 …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Fishing vessel owners have just over eight months to get familiar with the new rules of the observer program. NOAA Fisheries has used the program since 1972 to collect data for use in bycatch reduction, stock assessment, protecting certain species, gear research and regulations compliance. Martin Loefflad is the director of the Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division for …

Coming up this week, the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery ended suddenly on Thursday – we’ll tell you why; Fishermen on 58-foot boats are not the only ones visiting Sitka for this fishery; There’s a new way to pay for a hatchery’s operations in Southeast, and ComFish Alaska is going on right now in Kodiak. We had help from …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska Senate passed its version of the state capital budget Wednesday afternoon. Kodiak Senator Gary Stevens anticipates working out the differences with the House and having both bodies pass the budget by session adjournment time on Sunday. The City of Kodiak’s Pier 3 replacement is funded to $18-million in the Capital budget, with an additional $15-million in …

Files of census information housed at the Baranov Museum. Jennifer Canfield photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT After the required 72-year wait, the National Archives has released data from the 1940 census. The records were made available online last week and have been so popular that the site often crashes. Census data inspires endless hours of research for history buffs like Anjuli Grantham …