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Petro Marine Services, the parent company of the gas station chain Petro Express, has released more information on issues with contaminated fuel that was reported over this past month at its Kodiak location near Safeway.  The Petro Express near Safeway in Kodiak. This was the location affected by the strange liquid. March 21, 2023. Brian Venua/KMXT The company’s general manager, …

Kodiak residents will rally in support of healthy relationships and against domestic abuse on Thursday, March 23, as part of the Choose Respect March. It’s the first march since before the pandemic; it starts at 12 p.m. at the Sun’aq Tribal Hall in downtown Kodiak.  The Kodiak Women’s Resource and Crisis Center is one of the organizers of this year’s …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock: KMXT’s news director Kirsten Dobroth is joined by Rep. Louise Stutes during her visit to Kodiak for ComFish to discuss progress with the budget, the Alaska Marine Highway System, and what a state Bycatch Board might look like in the future.

This week on the Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A new article examines coastal communities that are losing land to erosion. The Choose Respect March is tomorrow. And Senator Sullivan speaks at Comfish. Erosion carries trees over the edge of a cliff and into the sea in Dillingham, Alaska, a coastal city about 350 miles west of Anchorage. Grist …

Sen. Dan Sullivan reiterated his support for the state’s salmon fisheries during his presentation on the final day of Kodiak’s annual commercial fishing trade show, ComFish, on Saturday. Sen. Sullivan reiterated his support for the state’s salmon fisheries during his federal legislative update (Photo courtesy KMXT) Sullivan slammed a Washington state conservation group’s lawsuit seeking to close Southeast Alaska’s king …

Kodiak’s state legislators are concerned about Alaska’s shrinking budget and shared their priorities at ComFish last week. There wasn’t much talk about fish at the state legislative update on Friday, but Rep. Stutes did provide one big update for fisheries; the commissioner of Fish and Game is creating a new board to tackle bycatch.  A screen capture of Rep. Louise Stutes’ …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KBBI’s Corinne Smith serves up a Cook Inlet Salmon forecast wrap, and Sage Smiley’s tour de force on transboundary watersheds, produced in the studios of KSTK. Illustration detailing the Stikine River layout.

On Today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Buddy Streeper defended his title in the Open North American Sled Dog Championship in Fairbanks over the weekend. The world’s wildest, weirdest boat race is back for another year this summer. And a UAF study seeks to find out why most park patrons are white. Buddy Streeper nears the finish line on …