Kodiak News

James A. Broaten was hurt when his ATV rolled May 23 in Ouzinkie, a Spruce Island village near Kodiak, according to Alaska State Troopers.

It's back to the drawing board for halibut iTags that will soon tell us more about where the fish travel than ever before.

"I'm honored, really. I just can't express it in words, I guess. It's hard to believe," Madsen told KMXT ( He said it also came as a surprise and only learned about it when current Kodiak Superior Court Judge Steve Cole called to tell him it was a done deal.

The final vote to limit chinook salmon bycatch by the Gulf of Alaska bottom trawl fleet to 7,500 per year was 10-1, but the decision by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council was hardly as decisive as that margin would indicate.

The Gulf of Alaska trawl fleet faces new restrictions, as fisheries managers seek to limit the number of chinook salmon it unintentionally takes.

Cmdr. Stephen White took over during a change-of-command ceremony Friday, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported .

It's your typical love story ... Man walks into a bar ... Man orders a beer ... Man has simulated sex with a big, black inflatable woman ... And it all happened to "Deadliest Catch" star Scott Campbell, Jr .

In Mississippi, Sloan worked for the Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. That refuge is one of seven in the Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

After shutting down an Alaska State Troopers investigation that had barely begun, chief state prosecutor Richard Svobodny decided no criminal charges will be filed in response to a complaint from the United Fishermen of Alaska that someone at the offices of the Kenai River Sportfishing Association eavesdropped on its January board teleconference ... (more)

A decision by Alaska Airlines to serve Fairbanks with turboprop airplanes instead of jets for service to Anchorage has launched a barrage of complaints from residents of Alaska's second-largest city, with many expressing their anger through social media.

Last month we reported that Arne Fuglvog of Petersburg has turned lobbyist and launched the Washington State-based Coastal Resource Strategies just weeks after being released from federal prison last fall.

As fisheries managers throughout Alaska prepare for low king salmon returns, federal regulators are considering new limits on king bycatch in the Gulf of Alaska.

Q400s also will replace the 737 that flies to Kodiak from Anchorage twice daily from October through April.

The Alaska Marine Highway System today announced that the M/V Tustumena will not return to service until The M/V Tustumena entered a federal capital improvement project on November 1, 2012 and was originally scheduled to return to service on April 17, 2013.

Rocks began falling onto West Rezanof Drive from Pillar Mountain midday. The slide happened between piers 2 and 3. Department of Transportation spokeswoman says a person driving a pickup hit one of the rocks, and the impact spun the truck around.

The 36,000-square-foot, three-story building is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2014 and will house people 55 and older, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported ( Heritage Heights, which also is operated by the Kodiak Island Housing Authority, gives preference to Native American and low-income households, and there is a substantial waiting list.

COULD BE TRUE ... At the risk of doing a Lucy-with-the-football, Ear has decided to believe the newly announced date for the premiere of "The Frozen Ground" -- Aug.

Salmon setnet families streamed out of Kodiak all week, headed to their sites to get ready for the June 9 season opener.

Over nine days of testimony that wrapped up last week in Anchorage, witnesses told a Coast Guard panel investigating the Dec.

In less than six weeks, the Tustumena ferry is supposed to wrap up repairs and set sail to southwest Alaska.