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Jay Barrett/KMXT The Northern Lights Conference Volleyball Championships are being held in Kodiak this week. Play starts Thursday afternoon and runs through Saturday afternoon. Day One matchups have number four seed Kodiak playing Wasilla at 1 p.m., and Colony facing Kenai at 3. Palmer and Soldotna, the first- and second-seeds respectively, get first-round byes and will play the winner of …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The last time we heard from Senate District R candidate Robert Henrich, he was just starting the summer fishing season out of his home of Cordova. Turns out it was a pretty good season for him, and he’s done a little campaigning since fishing wrapped up. The Democrat is hoping to make his way to Kodiak this week, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT There was volcanic ash in the air over the Shelikof Straight and parts of Kodiak Island yesterday. A person in Port Lions called KMXT to ask if a volcano had erupted, but the Alaska Volcano Observatory showed all was normal. However, it turned out that a volcano had erupted, though it wasn’t yesterday – it was almost exactly …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Travis Tennessen didn’t have a typical childhood. His adolescent years were split between the lush orchards of Wisconsin and the mountainous terrain of Kodiak Island. Unlike most seasonal residents of Alaska’s emerald isle, Tennessen and his family didn’t flock to the archipelago during the bountiful summer months, but rather the cold, dark days of January. Tennessen’s parents taught …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Halloween is considered a time for costumes, trick-or-treating and ghost stories. While Kodiak residents can get their fix of the first two in most areas of town this evening, the Baranov Museum’s Curator of Collections, Anjuli Grantham, stepped in to help with the latter.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Today kicks off the 13th Annual Invasive Species Conference organized by the Alaska Committee for Noxious and Invasive Plant Management, the Alaska Invasive Species Working Group and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service. Gino Graziano is an invasive plants instructor for the extension service and helped coordinate this year’s conference, which is being held in Kodiak. …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska House Representative Sharon Cissna has taken on one of the biggest political challenges in Alaska: trying to beat Representative Don Young for the seat he’s held in Congress for 40 years. The Anchorage Democrat has served in the state house for 14 years, and rose to nationwide prominence when she refused to allow a TSA agent to …

The Skystream 3.7 is a 2.4 kW wind turbine recently installed outside the Kodiak Island Borough Building. Brianna Gibbs/KMXT photo Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Just months after three new wind turbines were installed on Pillar Mountain the Kodiak High School got its own taste of wind energy when it raised another turbine outside the borough building on Signal Hill. While much smaller …