Kodiak News

Kodiak, Alaska - The Coast Guard suspended its search for a man overboard from the Seattle fishing trawler Rebecca Irene early Sunday morning.

Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center is well on its way to surpassing the Department of Health and Human Services' "Healthy People 2010" goal of increasing to 75% by 2010 the proportion of mothers nationwide who breast-feed their babies.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Kodiak, Alaska, prepares to rescue Jean Gabriel Shelala, 28, from his kayak in the Bering Sea, 40 miles north of St.

Salmon fishermen at Bristol Bay were bracing for another surge of reds over the July 4 weekend -- and likely more catch limits.

Alaska Sen. Mark Begich said he and his colleagues in the Senate are digging into a massive 1,300-page climate and energy bill passed by the U.S. House June 26 to understand its impacts and to put their own imprint on the bill.

Media interested in attending should contact Chief Warrant Officer Phillip Jordinelli at 487-5426 or the Coast Guard District 17 Public Affairs staff at 487-5700. KODIAK, Alaska Coast Guard Communications Station Kodiak will hold a change of command ceremony Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the Golden Anchor on Coast Guard base Kodiak where Lt.

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to review a land dispute between a Kodiak rancher and a village Native corporation, effectively ending a court battle that has dragged on for more than three decades.

SEAN PEARSON / Associated Press archive 2006 / Kindal Murry, of Columbia Falls, Mont., right, stands by a 77-pound lingcod he caught in 2006.

KODIAK, Alaska The Coast Guard is searching for a 37-year-old Chinese crewmember presumed to have fallen overboard from the 685-foot container ship Sao Paulo approximately 754 miles southwest of Kodiak in the North Pacific Ocean.

A second straight year of weak king salmon returns around the rim of the Gulf of Alaska has state fisheries biologists wondering if they might be staring into the face of a bleak future.

Kodiak Diesel in Kodiak, Alaska has just finished the repower of the F/V Jeanoah an 84 ft crabbing and long line vessel owned by Fairweather Fisheries, Jerry Bongen & James Stevens.

Rod Whitehead had doubts he'd see his five children again as he marked 52 hours adrift in an open skiff in the northern Pacific on Father's Day.

SENATORS: SEE ALASKA SHRINK ON YOUR SUMMER BREAK : Summer tourists are lured to Alaska by the midnight sun, abundant wildlife and world-class sport fishing.

After interviewing three of seven applicants, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has invited D. Allan Gee to become Homer High School's next principal.

The past two weeks have seen dock prices in Homer jump as much as $1 per pound as summer demand increases.

One of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough's most popular streams will be closed to king salmon fishing because of poor returns.

Every summer since she and her family moved to Anchorage in 1998, Donna White has proudly donned the colorful ball caps worn by survivors and sufferers of breast cancer at the annual Alaska Run For Women.

State officials are closing or restricting several sport fisheries in the Kodiak area because of late salmon runs.

ALASKA HIGHWAY OPEN AGAIN THROUGH B.C. FIRE ZONE A huge lightning-caused forest fire in northern British Columbia that has frustrated firefighters and closed the Alaska Highway intermittently for the past week continues to grow but at a somewhat slower pace.

"I would be surprised if we didn't override her," North Pole Republican Rep. John Coghill said.