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Jay Barrett/KMXT A 31-year-old deer hunter was rescued Tuesday afternoon after being mauled Sunday by a Kodiak brown bear and her two cubs. Matthew Sutton of Great Falls, Montana, and his partner were hunting in Viekoda Bay, about 25 miles west of Kodiak City when the attack happened. Fish and Game wildlife biologist Larry Van Daele said Sutton was alone …

Photographs of the humpback whale towing a crabpot line in Uyak Bay taken earlier today (Tuesday) by Steve Larsen of Andrew Airways. Bree Witteveen of the University of Alaska says she will be flying to Uyak Bay Wednesday to disentangle the whale if it has not freed itself by then.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Singer-songwriters Peter Mulvey and Patty Larkin are performing tonight at the Orpheum Theater as part of the KMXT Fall Concert Series. Both were on KMXT’s Talk of The Rock with Jay Barrett this afternoon.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Singer-songwriters Peter Mulvey and Patty Larkin are performing tonight at the Orpheum Theater as part of the KMXT Fall Concert Series. Both were on KMXT’s Talk of The Rock with Jay Barrett this afternoon.

Casey Kelly/KMXT Residents of Kodiak are reacting to the news that Senator Ted Stevens is guilty of seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial disclosure documents.

Audio story by APRN’s Libby Casey WASHINGTON (AP) – Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor. The Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents. The verdict throws the upcoming election into disarray. …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A pair of large whales were spotted today (Monday) entangled in the same buoy line in Uyak Bay. The whales were first seen by Kevin Van Hatten, a biologist and pilot for the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. He said the whales were performing something of a tug-of-war, trying to swim away from each other. Uyak Bay is about …

Casey Kelly/KMXT Kodiak High School cross country phenom Trevor Dunbar has done it again. Two weeks after winning the Adidas Classic in Portland, Oregon, Dunbar was in Walnut, California for the Mt. SAC Invitational over the weekend. Running in 80-degree heat, Dunbar still managed to blow the competition away, finishing with a time of 14 minutes 41 seconds, 5 seconds …