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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge says defense attorneys in the Kodiak Coast Guard CommSta murder trial can’t call a witness currently in custody on another case, though he may allow it in the future. Judge Ralph Beistline ruled today (Friday) that 38-year-old Jason Barnum didn’t have a sufficient connection to the case to testify in the trial of …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) The wife of a Coast Guardsman shot to death two years ago at a Kodiak communications station says she didn’t shoot her husband and his co-worker. Deborah Hopkins was called as a defense witness Thursday in the trial of James Wells, who’s charged with first-degree murder in the death of Petty Officer First Class James Hopkins and …

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 …