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Kodiak, Alaska is located in Kodiak Island County. Zip codes in Kodiak, AK include 99615, 99697, and 99619. More Kodiak information.

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15 hrs ago | Anchorage Daily News

More Alaska halibut eaten at home this year

Alaska's halibut fishery ended Nov. 15 with little fanfare. Brutal winter weather wreaked havoc on deliveries in the final week and bumped up prices as buyers scrambled for the last fresh fish of the year.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

USCG

Photo Release: Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley crew receives Arctic Service Medal

Capt. Michael Inman, Coast Guard 17th District Response Chief, presents the Coast Guard Arctic Service Medal to the entire ship's crew on board the Alex Haley at the Coast Guard pier in Kodiak Friday, Nov.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Diner's Journal

Fish Stories

The fried curried pink snapper at Oceana. Two responses to yesterday's Dining reviews may be worth hashing through here in the D.J. booth.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Marmots need to leave Alaska island for the birds

HOMER, Alaska - Few records exist about why barracks for 15 people were built on Sud Island in the Barrens in the 1940s.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Anchorage Daily News

Crabbers get a boost in bairdi Tanner quotas

Kodiak and Alaska Peninsula crabbers got some good news last week -- bigger catch quotas for bairdi Tanner crab, a mid-January fishery important to local economies.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

Anchorage Daily News

Alaska tourism industry pleads for marketing money

Link: Juneau Empire Representatives of the struggling Alaska tourism industry sought additional marketing money from the state House Finance Committee on Wednesday.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Permafrost's future in Alaska looks poor, but the forecast isn't all bad

Alaska will probably see most of its surface permafrost vanish by the end of this century, but researchers believe vast areas of frozen soil will remain deeper underground even as air temperatures increase.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Capital City Weekly

Journey into the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

Almost 100 years after the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is still a moonscape of ash and volcanic rock, without a tree or shrub in sight.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

Capital City Weekly

Petroglyphs in Southeast Alaska

Scattered across the beaches of Southeast Alaska, and indeed along the entire Northwest Pacific coast from Kodiak to the Columbia River, are intensely staring eyes, totemic animals and geometric patterns carved into boulders and bedrock.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

KTVA Anchorage

Kodiak man arrested in Anchorage on sex abuse charges

A Kodiak soldier was arrested and charged with six counts of sexual abuse of a minor on Nov.

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Anchorage Daily News

Kodiak opens shipyard to service local fleet

It's taken a decade and $18 million but the city of Kodiak has a new shipyard capable of servicing 660-ton vessels.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

Alaska Journal of Commerce

Fishery council pushes to continue rockfish pilot program

Federal fisheries officials are considering making permanent a controversial rockfish pilot program that essentially privatizes that fishery in the central Gulf of Alaska.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

KRBD-FM Ketchikan

Education Commissioner Talks Comprehensive Plan During Wrangell Visit

State Education Commissioner Larry LeDoux talks with Wrangell High School students during a meet-and-greet at the Stikine Inn.

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

KGW-TV Portland

Alaska town opens shipyard to service local fleets

It's taken a decade and $18 million dollars but the city of Kodiak has a new shipyard capable of servicing 660-ton vessels.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

Kanabec County Times Online

Mora featured in Scandinavian film

Photo 1: Murial Gorham and Gordon Hallstrom had a chance to visit after the viewing of "Pretty Much 100% Scandinavian" by Stefan Quinth from Sweden and now of Kodiak, AK.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

Seward City News

State Senator Holds Town Hall

State Senator Gary Stevens, District R- Kodiak, hosted a town hall meeting at the Resurrection Art Coffee House Saturdaymorning, Oct 19, in what was his first such event in Seward in about two years, according to his aide.

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

Anchorage Daily News

Coast Guard prepares for crabbing season

The Coast Guard says it has redeployed some personnel and equipment to the Aleutian Islands to prepare for the crabbing season in the Bering Sea.

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

KTVF Fairbanks

Kodiak communities receive siren grants

The warning siren money is directed to Akhiok , Larsen Bay and Ouzinkie , part of a $225,000 Department of Commerce grant.

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Sun Oct 18, 2009

KAPP

Body of 60-year-old Woman Found

A 60-year old woman from Kodiak, Alaska was found dead Saturday morning near Manastash Road.

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Clarion Dispatch

Community reclaims history of Alutiiq masks

For more than a hundred years, over 70 Alutiiq ceremonial masks were housed in a museum in France, honored as art yet completely cut off from their original cultural context.

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