Brian Venua
Senior ReporterBorn and raised in Dillingham, Brian Venua attended Gonzaga University before graduating and ultimately returning to Alaska. He moved to Kodiak and joined KMXT in 2022. Venua has since won awards for the newsroom as both a writer and photojournalist, with work focused on strengthening community, breaking down complex topics, and sharing stories of and for the people of the Kodiak Archipelago.
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This week we hear an update on the lawsuit between KANA and the borough, symptoms of a shrinking population, how climate change is affecting Kodiak, staffing issues on Base Kodiak, and a grow-your-own program for firefighters. -
Kodiak’s population is shrinking, following a trend among rural places across the country. It’s one of the biggest factors as the archipelago’s school district considers closing one of its elementary schools. -
While none of the catcher-processor's boats fish near Kodiak, they still set aside $12,500 for the region. Ten nonprofits received grants in the most recent cycle, the next one will be in the spring of 2025. -
An explosion on a Kodiak beach injured at least eight Kodiak teenagers on Nov. 10 – five of them seriously enough to be medevaced to Anchorage. In an interview from her hospital room, one of the victims described the aftermath – and her hopes and worries about her recovery. -
On today's Midday Report with Host Brian Venua:KHS students heard from a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Kodiak farmers have another election for a regional committee, we hear a different perspective of salmon, and Alaska State Troopers' C Detachment will be in Bethel. -
Students at Kodiak High School heard from a U.S. Supreme Court justice on Friday, Nov. 15. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the students how the skills she picked up from theater and debate aided her career. -
This week we hear about the explosion at White Sands, a threat at Kodiak High School being found not credible, $11 million in federal funds as well as a new cutter headed to Kodiak, the Alutiiq Museum will revamp its library, and the harvest limits for the 2025 Tanner crab season has been set.
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The museum received nearly $150,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to revamp the Koniag Cultural Library. The grant comes as it’s finishing construction on its building and staff say it’s good timing to have even more to show off at its grand reopening in May. -
The Kodiak region’s commercial Tanner crab fishery will open again in 2025. But fishermen will have just a fraction of last year’s harvest level, following a decades-long up and down pattern for the species’ population. -
It's part of a total $104 million headed to Alaska to help pay for coastal infrastructure. About half the money will go towards Anchorage, the other five communities awarded will receive about $11 million each.
