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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 …

Casey Kelly/KMXT 0 < ![endif]--> The Kodiak City Council bid farewell to longtime Councilman Charlie Davidson Thursday.

Casey Kelly/KMXT 0 < ![endif]--> The Kodiak City Council on Thursday approved a 110-thousand dollar contract with CH2M Hill for a pilot program that will test whether the city can compost biosolids, which is basically human waste in the form of sludge. KMXT’s Casey Kelly has more.

Jay Barrett/KMXT When the Alaska Legislature set the current budget early this year, the price of oil was sky-high and heading higher. Alaska crude peaked at nearly 150-dollars per barrel in July. The budget was put together assuming a price of 85-dollars per barrel, but Juneau Senator Kim Elton said last week that the price of a barrel of oil …

Casey Kelly/KMXT Emergency crews responded to the dock at Western Alaska Fisheries in Kodiak this afternoon (Thursday), after a man stripped naked and jumped into the water. Lieutenant David Billings with the Kodiak Fire Department says the 911 call came in around 3:15. He says the man apparently jumped in and then climbed onto one of the crossbeams below the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT With Kodiak voters facing choices on the November 4th ballot ranging from who will represent us in the state house to who will be president, a statewide transportation bond is getting lost in the shuffle.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Ethan Berkowitz made another swing through Kodiak this week, speaking before the Rotary and holding a town hall meeting with fishermen. He came by the KMXT studios yesterday afternoon and chatted with Jay Barrett. Berkowitz faces incumbent Representative Don Young in the November 4th General Election.

Casey Kelly/KMXT From KMXT in Kodiak, this is the Alaska Fisheries Report. Coming up this week… More delays in store for victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill awaiting punitive damages. The first king crab arrives in Dutch Harbor. And Yukon River fishermen get their dipnets ready for another lamprey test fishery. Those stories and more coming up on this …