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Jay Barrett/KMXT One section has already closed in the Kodiak area sac roe herring season that opened Tuesday. In an announcement, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game closed the Outer Kiliuda Bay Section of the Eastside District yesterday at 11:10 a.m., for the remainder of the season. The fishery kicked off at noon on Tuesday for both gillnet and …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) The man charged with gunning down two co-workers at a Coast Guard communications station in Kodiak told an FBI agent he couldn’t explain why it took so long to get home after discovering he had a soft tire on his pickup the morning of the shooting. FBI agent Kirk Overlander interviewed James Wells following the murders of …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) An expert in recreating traffic accident scenarios says a compact sport utility vehicle could have been the vehicle seen driving past a Kodiak Island Coast Guard communications station where two men were murdered. Prosecutors are attempting to connect a grainy security camera image of a blue vehicle to James Wells, who is charged with killing two co-workers …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Tomorrow marks the start of the 34th annual ComFish here in Kodiak. The event is Alaska’s largest commercial fishery trade show, and dozens of vendors are set to pack the Kodiak Harbor Convention Center to showcase their goods and services. “We have a full venue again, we’ve been turning people away for a month and a half.” That’s …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT As a rural community, Kodiak doesn’t often offer the services and opportunities provided elsewhere, especially in terms of medical procedures. For instance, if a woman in Kodiak has ever had a cesarean or c-section, they are limited to that same procedure for future pregnancies, so long as they remain in Kodiak and choose to deliver at Providence Kodiak …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) The sister and brother-in-law of a Kodiak man charged with killing two Coast Guard communication station co-workers say he became irate when the topic of their deaths came up two months later. Theresa and Donald Kiele says James Wells became animated and said the dead men were incompetent and not qualified to work in the shop were …

Next week is the Kodiak Area Marine Science Symposium, an event sponsored by the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program. This marks the symposium’s second year here in Kodiak, and it acts as a forum for state, federal and academic researchers to present their projects and findings to the Kodiak community. The event focuses on topics related to Kodiak’s marine …

Next week is the Kodiak Area Marine Science Symposium, an event sponsored by the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program. This marks the symposium’s second year here in Kodiak, and it acts as a forum for state, federal and academic researchers to present their projects and findings to the Kodiak community. The event focuses on topics related to Kodiak’s marine …