Jay Barrett/KMXT Responding to direction from the Board of Fisheries, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has moved forward with a new pollock test fishery in Kodiak waters, using seine gear. At January’s Fish Board meeting here in Kodiak, board members and fishermen expressed interest in a walleye pollock test fishery with seine gear. In an announcement last week, …
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Course and Calendar Recommendations Emerge from Regents’ Kodiak Meeting
Jay Barrett/KMXT The University of Alaska Board of Regents met here in Kodiak last week, and agreed on two recommendations designed to help students who take classes from more than one campus at a time. One would create a common academic calendar for all campuses in the state, and the other would make math and English requirements the same across …
Read More »Kulluk Grounding Report Released
Jay Barrett/KMXT The U.S. Coast Guard yesterday released its report on Royal Dutch Shell’s arctic drilling efforts in 2012, which led to the grounding of the mobile drilling rig Kulluk on New Year’s Eve. The 152-page report was released 10-months after a hearing in Anchorage in the aftermath of the grounding. The investigation was done by Commander Joshua McTaggart of …
Read More »Community Elder Bob Hatcher Succumbs to Cancer
Robert Hatcher at a Pioneers of Alaska Halloween Party in 2012. Jay Barrett/KMXT photo Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak lost a longtime community leader on Wednesday. Robert “Bob” Hatcher died of cancer. He was 87. Mr. Hatcher originally came to Kodiak during World War II. During patriotic holidays, or during visits to classrooms to speak to children, he enjoyed wearing his U.S. …
Read More »Former Medical Examiner Testifies in CommSta Murder Trial
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A former state medical examiner says the two men killed in 2012 at the Coast Guard’s Kodiak Island Communication Station each suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Dr. Meredith Lann testified Thursday in the trial of 62-year-old James Wells, who is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Petty Officer James Hopkins and retired …
Read More »The Alaska Fisheries Report
Coming up this week: herring, herring, herring. And, No Fish Tax For You! All that and more this week, on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help this week from KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham, KCAW’s Rachel Waldholz in Sitka, and KUAC’s Dan Bross in Fairbanks.
Read More »Bear Valley’s Last Tee Time May Be This Summer
Jay Barrett/KMXT Because of federal budget concerns, two military amenities in Alaska that are also widely enjoyed by civilians are facing an uncertain future. Both are golf courses – the one at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, and Bear Valley here in Kodiak. The courses will open this summer, but unless something changes, it will be their last season of …
Read More »Beaufort Testifies About Finding Bodies at CommSta in 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Coast Guardsman who discovered the bodies of two murdered men nearly two years ago says he thought at first they were playing a prank on him. Petty Officer Cody Beaufort testified Wednesday in the trial of James Wells, who’s charged with shooting to death retired Coast Guardsman Richard Belisle and Petty Officer James Hopkins at …
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