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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) A defense witness in the trial of the man charged with killing two co-workers at a Kodiak Coast Guard station says there are plenty of other cars on the island that fit the dimensions of a vehicle recorded near the murder scene. Federal defender investigator Deatrich Sheffield says 263 blue vehicles registered on the island fit the …

Coming up this week, it’s ComFish time in Kodiak, we have reaction to the possibility of no king salmon fishing at all this summer in the Y-K Delta, and another fishermen’s bar goes smoke free, all that and more coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs in Kodiak, KSTK’s Shady Grove Oliver in …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska Senator Mark Begich was in town Thursday. As he told KMXT’s Jay Barrett, the visit was part campaign-swing, part work.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Tonight the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will meet for a regular meeting and take a look at a proposed change order to the Kodiak High School Addition and Renovation’s project management contract. A year ago, the borough hired Bruce Walter of Wilson Engineering for project management services associated with the high school, and tonight the assembly will be …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT It’s been six months since animal control service returned to the borough’s road system. During Tuesday’s work session the borough assembly heard from Community Development Director Bob Pederson about some animal control numbers the borough recently received from the city. “And if you look at the numbers, 2-1, the calls in the city versus the borough. Which I …

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 …