Jennifer Canfield/KMXT It’s that time of year when locals and tourists alike peer out to the water searching for the sometimes barely there signs of visiting whales.
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Building Land Shortage Alarms Realtors
Jay Barrett/KMXT At the beginning of last (Tuesday) night’s joint work session between the Kodiak City Council and the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly, two members of the Kodiak Board of Realtors made another pitch for the government to free up more developable land in Kodiak for residential construction. Paula Laird, the board’s president, said she’s got a file full of …
Read More »Town Hall Meeting Provides Few Answers About Murders
Jay Barrett/KMXT Monday night more than 200 people showed up at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium for a town hall meeting organized by the U.S. Coast Guard as a response to last week’s double homicide at the Communications Station. In addition to Coast Guard officers, there were police, city, school district and mental health professionals on stage. Base Support Unit …
Read More »Begich Proposes New Work Visa for Fishing Industry
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 …
Read More »Kodiak Delegation Skepitcal of Oil Tax Success in Special Session
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.
Read More »Kodiak Libraries Connect With Faster Internet and Teleconferencing
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 …
Read More »Bristol Bay Red Kings Face Challenges
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.
Read More »Community Meeting Over Slayings Called for Tonight
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 …
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