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Brianna Gibbs/KMXT On Monday night roughly two dozen community members filled the borough assembly chambers for the Kodiak Fisheries Work Group meeting. It was a long night of testimony, panel discussion and guest presentations, as the work group considered what recommendations it might pass on to the city council and borough assembly for bycatch management in the Gulf of Alaska …

Jay Barrett/KMXT You can add another trophy to the mantle of Kodiak’s most famous runner. Trevor Dunbar’s Oregon Ducks won the NCAA indoor national track and field championship over the weekend. The University of Oregon senior placed in two events to help the Ducks clinch the title in Albuquerque, scoring 62 points, eight more than runner-up Arkansas. Dunbar was fifth …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, Host Brianna Gibbs talks with Kodiak Island Brewing Company owner, Ben Millstein, and head brewer, Naga Reshi. The brewery recently released a "Tsunami IPA" in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake and Tsunami.

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, Host Brianna Gibbs talks with Kodiak Island Brewing Company owner, Ben Millstein, and head brewer, Naga Reshi. The brewery recently released a "Tsunami IPA" in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake and Tsunami.

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, Host Brianna Gibbs talks with Kodiak Island Brewing Company owner, Ben Millstein, and head brewer, Naga Reshi. The brewery recently released a "Tsunami IPA" in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake and Tsunami.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Though in business for over 20 years in Seward and lately in Kodiak, Quality Marine of Alaska, which does all manner of industrial welding, was known mostly only by fishermen and others who needed to keep their vessels and machinery in working order. Wider fame came last year when the shop, owned by Theresa and Dennis Butts, made …

Annie Ropeik, Lauren Rosenthal/KUCB A member of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment in Unalaska has passed away in Anchorage. Petty Officer Michal Marciniak died at Alaska Regional Hospital Tuesday morning while receiving treatment for a serious illness. Marciniak had fallen ill Monday morning and was medevacked to Cold Bay on a Coast Guard helicopter. A commercial medevac brought him …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A portion of the Kodiak High School renovation and addition project is slightly behind schedule these days. That’s the word from construction manager Bruce Walter of Wilson Engineering. Walter presented an update on the high school project during the borough assembly’s work session on Thursday. He said the four-story classroom tower is running behind schedule and will not …