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Kodiak will get a glimpse of different cultures Saturday during the Media Action Film Festival, which will showcase the best documentaries from workshops over the past three years. KMXT News student intern Marina Cummiskey spoke with Media Action co-founder Marie Acemah for this week’s the Rock.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak Launch Complex isn’t located in the most accessible part of the island. It’s more than 35 miles of winding, two-lane highway from the nearest shipping port in Women’s Bay, and another five miles from the Kodiak Benny Benson State Airport. When equipment comes in, especially large equipment for a launch, the road is often completely shut …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Federal officials are looking into the suspicious death of a protected marine mammal, which washed up on the Pasagshak beach late last week. NOAA Fisheries investigator Michael Killary said a 300-pound female harbor seal was found dead with a wound to its head. “It looked like a bullet wound. But we picked it up and took it back …

Jay Barrett/KMXT As KMXT first told you Monday, Kodiak Police Chief T.C. Kamai will be retiring at the end of the month after 25 years with the department, about half of it as chief. Today we hear a little more from Kamai about his career and future.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT It’s a busy week for Kodiak’s municipal government, with four meetings in the next three days. It all starts tonight when the City Council meets for a work session to discuss, among other things, composting. There will be an update on the Class B composting currently being done at the landfill, as well as an update on Quayanna …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum has seen quite a few changes in the past few months. Long-time Director Sven Haakanson retired in June, and in August the museum welcomed Alisha Drabek as its new director. Now, the organization will start seeing less of another decade-long employee, Katie St. John. St. John has served the Alutiiq Museum for the past 12 …

PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 5, 2013) Quartermaster 3rd Class Alexis Ensley, from Kodiak, Alaska, prepares to hoist signal flags aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is underway conducting engineering exercises. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Timothy Schumaker/Released)

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT There’s no question that marine debris has been washing up on Alaska’s shores for hundreds of years. This summer six Kodiak Island Trails Network staffers and 13 volunteers made it their mission to put a sizeable dent in debris washed up on a remote island southwest of Kodiak. Nobody lives on Tugidak Island. It’s 67 square miles of …