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Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School girls basketball team continues its winning streak and has extended its perfect record into Northern Lights Conference play. The Bears swept the Kenai Kardinals over the weekend. Friday, Kodiak was victorious 61-to-25, and followed that up on Saturday with a 45-to-15 win. The Bears had a 25-to-5 lead at halftime. On Friday, Hannah Wandersee …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT This Sunday a group of Kodiak’s male and female vocal enthusiasts will put on a winter song concert. Jenny Stevens has been directing her male vocal group, the Alpha Singers, for about five years. “There’s between 10 and 12 guys. They get together every night and sing their hearts out and have a lot of fun. As one …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A handful of Kodiak projects will be sent to Washington D.C. in the near future. During last night’s city council meeting the council unanimously approved the city’s prioritized federal capital improvements program and issues list, essentially the city’s wish list of sorts for federal funding. City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski said she spoke with the city’s D.C. lobbyist, Brad …

Coming up this week, sportsfishing interests in Soldotna are not giving up on their efforts to force a vote to ban setnets in Cook Inlet, there’s more quota for Southeast halibut fishermen, but less elsewhere, and a breakthrough in excluders for trawl nets might save more salmon. All that, and, when is a pollock a cod? Kinda… now – we’ll …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Pollock A season got underway in the Bering Sea on Monday, but what the fishermen haul up will now technically be a cod fish. That’s because scientists have recently dug deeper back into the Pollock’s family tree and found out that they are more closely related to cod than they knew. In fact, Alaska Pollock are more …

Shaylon Cochran/KDLL The Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance did not agree with Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell’s decision this month to not allow its proposed ban on commercial setnetting on the 2016 ballot. They’re taking their case to court. KDLL’s Shaylon Cochran has more.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Salvation Army is looking to tap into some federal and state funding this year and needs the city’s help to do so. During Tuesday’s City Council work session Jonathan Strong spoke to the council about the organization’s hope continue its service in the Kodiak community, and add some new programs as well. Strong is the case manager …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT It’s a relatively light meeting for the Kodiak City Council tonight. The council will take a look at the city’s federal capital improvements program list. It includes a number of projects the city hopes to have funded with federal dollars this year and will be sent to Washington D.C. following council approval. The Monashka pumphouse replacement tops that …