KMXT 100.1 FM Public Radio in Kodiak, Alaska

Jay Barrett/KMXT There have been four more hats thrown into the ring that is the Kodiak borough election pool. Frank Peterson has joined the race for a three-year assembly seat. Also running is incumbent Carol Austerman. Rick Kniaziowski has signed up to run for the one three-year term available on the school board, and is so far the only person …

Today on Talk of the Rock, host Jay Barrett talk with Don Hartsell, the originator and promoter behind the World Sky Race, a stage-stop race around the world by various kinds of airships that he hopes to have off the ground by 2015.

Today on Talk of the Rock, host Jay Barrett talk with Don Hartsell, the originator and promoter behind the World Sky Race, a stage-stop race around the world by various kinds of airships that he hopes to have off the ground by 2015.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT In the world of subsistence harvesting, at least within federal lands and waters, rural and non-rural classifications mean everything. Basically, rural communities are entitled to the land, and are first in line for consuming natural resources. Kodiak’s long-standing rural label has been called into question in the past, and according to Pamela Bumsted, could be questioned again in …

A swarm of an estimated 50,000 honeybees left Ani Thomas’ hive Saturday, searching for a new home.The bees were given a new hive and in a few hours had made themselves at home. Judy Hamilton photo Jay Barrett/KMXT Apparently when a bee colony gets a little too crowded, the queen will leave with about half of her minions to find …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The pink salmon harvest took a big jump on Friday, with the local fleet delivering 1,737,994 salmon, which was about a million more fish than the day before. Alaska Department of Fish and Game figures show the hot streak continued over the weekend, with another million pinks netted Saturday, and 1.2-million more on Sunday. That brings the cumulative …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak City Council Thursday night put the final nail in the coffin of the old police station downtown when it approved a contract of nearly $350,000 to Golden Alaska Excavating to tear down the nearly 60-year-old building. “It’s very derelict. We’ve spent money to insure it and keep it heated and we’ve had, you know, frozen pipes. …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A 13-year-old Kodiak boy was medevac’d to Anchorage after an ATV accident near Roslyn Beach on Saturday. The Alaska State Troopers report he was driving a four-wheeler on a trail near the beach when the accident occurred. Troopers and Kodiak Fire Department EMTs needed to be ferried by others on ATVs to reach the site of the accident. …