Thanksgiving and Christmas. Both celebrations evoke reflection. We think of all of the blessings that have come our way this ...

Facing yet another challenging budget year, the Kodiak Island Borough School District has started the process of informing ...

In our experience as statewide news watchers, nothing gets parents out in the streets with picket signs more reliably than a proposed school closure.

Norton, a 1991 graduate of Kodiak High School, was recently awarded the prestigious Joe Babbitt Contributor’s Award by the ...

The University of Washington is out with a second opinion on the projected 2025 Bristol Bay sockeye run. UW’s Alaska Salmon Program is forecasting a run of 54.1 million fish.

One Sunday more than 20 years ago, Natalia Ruppert held her 1-year-old son a bit tighter in her arms. A friend’s house had ...

A random collection of what there is to do in Kodiak this weekend and beyond. Send information about your upcoming event to reporter Derek Clarkston via email at [email protected].

The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Thursday approved changes to Alaska Waste’s garbage hauling contract, got some positive news about cleaning up the parking situation at the airport, heard from a ...

I went to the big box store in search of a small cactus to grow on my apartment windowsill. But not just any cactus. One that didn’t grow as large as a giant Saguaro, but was guaranteed to at least ...

The Kodiak City Council will meet in special session Tuesday to consider four Alaska Board of Fish proposals that would place additional limits on the Prince William Sound pollock fishery. The Alaska ...

2024 has been one of those years that challenges a person’s ability to be thankful. The global horizon is dark from the ...

Fundraisers. We have lived here long enough to know how generous our neighbors are but that doesn’t mean our jaws don’t drop every time this island pulls together ...