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Marine mammal researcher Bree Witteveen takes aim with her air rifle at a humpback whale just offshore of Spruce Cape Friday. The air rifle fires a dart that samples the whale’s skin and blubber. Marine Advisory Program researchers have a special federal permit (NMFS Federal Research Permit # 14296) to approach the whales so closely and to collect the samples. …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Anglers whose freezers are already full of fish can look to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks for alternative ways to preserve their catch. Roxie Dinstel is the extension home economist for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, a program that provides useful tools in preserving Alaska’s bounty. "In cooperative extension we work with folks on …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A Kodiak teacher earned some serious bragging rights in the technology community this summer when he won an eBook lesson plan contest. John Malloy is a 3rd and 4th grade teacher at East Elementary and on the technology committee for the school district. "Basically I submitted an eBook that dealt with the lifecycle of a salmon," he said. …

Periodically this summer Deb Mignogno, the volunteer naturalist at Fort Abercrombie, brings us an update on the goings-on out at the park. This week on The Naturalist, a scavenger hunt of a different kind.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska Senator Mark Begich sent a letter to the commander of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Command today (Thursday), urging him to look into utilizing the Kodiak Launch Complex for sending satellites into polar orbits. Begich said the KLC is the nation’s only high-latitude, full-service spaceport, ideal to support special paths around the earth known as Molniya and …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Details and specifics about the Monday visit to Kodiak by singer Pitbull are emerging. According to a promoter, his main public appearance will be at the Coast Guard’s Lake Louise housing area at the Nemetz Gazebo from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday Era Aviation announced they will be participating by setting up large tents at the event …

Lt. Vincent Jansen, an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter pilot from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, forward located in Barrow, briefs a North Slope Borough police officer as he prepares to launch for a search and rescue mission involving a hiker that fell from a cliff in the Brooks Range today (Thursday). This is the first search and rescue case in Barrow …

St. Herman Seminary archivist Daria Safronova and school dean, Father John Dunlop, display some of the recently rediscovered Alutiiq language artifacts found in the school archives. There’s a close up of the book after the jump. Brianna Gibbs/KMXT photo Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Yesterday, KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs told you about the recent rediscovery of a book, handwritten in Alutiiq and containing numerous …