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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Alaska Natives across the country will meet Sunday via webcast to discuss their views on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The forum, which is being organized by the First Alaskans Institute, coincides with the 40th anniversary of the passage of ANCSA and is said to be the first time so-called "after-borns" have come together to discuss the …

Maggie Wall/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly last night approved adding $500,000 to the Baranof Park project and authorized funding a fisheries consultant to be shared with the city.

Maggie Wall/KMXT Kodiak’s funky weather with its repeated thawing and cooling cycles makes the local mountainous area prime conditions for avalanches. The Kodiak Island Search and Rescue is hosting an avalanche awareness workshop Friday evening Nick Szabo is a KISAR member. He spoke with KMXT’s Maggie Wall: -((Avalanche Class      1:45    “Kodiak has prime…and back again.”)) If you spend any time …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Governor Sean Parnell released his budget for 2013 today. The $12.1 billion dollar budget is $600 million less than last year. Proposed spending for Kodiak and surrounding areas totals just over $41 million. Included is just over $3 million for phase two of the Kodiak Island Borough landfill lateral expansion. Borough Mayor Jerome Selby is hopeful the project …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Halfway through his junior year in college, local running star Trevor Dunbar has decided to transfer from the University of Portland to the University of Oregon. —          (Dunbar 1                   :15                   “Started thinking about it last spring really when I was hitting a plateau, I guess. I really started seriously considering it this summer when I had some time …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Two public hearings are scheduled for tonight’s regular meeting of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly; one on a proposed rezoning along Spruce Cape Road, the other is on a package of mid-year updates to the borough’s budget.

Maggie Wall/KMXT Tuesday evening the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and the public got an update on the Kodiak High School renovation and upgrade project, which is moving right along.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Middle School orchestra, band and choir held their winter concert last night to a standing-room only crowd at the Gerald C. Wilson auditorium. Here are some sounds from the performance.