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Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last night the assembly approved an ordinance that would adopt and implement a new employee classification and compensation plan. The plan was actually the result of a study done by Fox Lawson and Associates last May, but it took a year to make its way back to the assembly for a vote. Bill Roberts works for the borough’s …

Annie Ropeik/KUCB It’s official: Delta Western fuel supply workers in Unalaska are unionized. The National Labor Relations Board certified the workers’ vote to join the Inland Boatmen’s Union last week, according to an IBU statement. The workers had voted by an eight to 15 margin to join the union in early April. An NLRB representative oversaw the election. The next …

Coming up this week, Togiak herring season is open, but there’s something less than a mad rush to get nets in the water; winter king trolling has wrapped up in Southeast, and the possibility of a herring transplant. We had help from KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham, KCAW’s Robert Woolsey and Emily Foreman in Sitka, and KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT This weekend a group of people are trying to rekindle a discussion about land use and logging in Kodiak. It’s been about six months since dozens of Chiniak residents packed the borough assembly chambers to oppose a proposed land sale between the Kodiak Island Borough and A-1 Timber Consultants, Inc. The 800 acres of borough land that was …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT This Saturday is community clean up day here in Kodiak. Joyce Gregory is with the Kodiak Lions Club and said it’s an opportunity for people to spruce up different areas – sort of an island-wide spring cleaning, if you will. She said free clean up bags will be provided at the high school parking lot Saturday morning. “Everybody …

Jay Barrett/KMXT It turns out Kodiak’s Bear Valley Golf Course isn’t the only military-owned course that is facing closure in the immediate or near future. Anchorage’s Eagleglen, considered one of the nicest in the state, will not open this year, according to Lieutenant General Russell Handy, the commander of the 11th Air Force at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. In an announcement …

Liz Ruskin/APRN andJay Barrett/KMXT The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the latest Outside group to launch campaign ads in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. The national business lobby has a 30-second television commercial running this week that slams incumbent Democrat Senator Mark Begich and supports one of his Republican challengers. “Mark Begich sided with Washington. Again. Dan Sullivan puts Alaska first” …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT As the temperature hopefully starts warming up in the next few weeks, some folks might take to Kodiak’s roads on two wheels, rather than four. For those looking to get some biking in this year, be it recreationally, or simply to get from point A to point B, there will be a community bike clinic on Saturday at …