Kodiak News

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The Village is a Daily News blog about life and politics in rural Alaska. Its main author is ADN reporter Kyle Hopkins.

Crew aboard a trawl vessel operating off Kodiak Island last summer photographed large numbers of tanner crab harvested incidentally during groundfish fisheries.

Kodiak has been hit with its second-rainiest day on record. The 6.40 inches of rain Friday caused mudslides along Rezanof Drive and Anton Larsen Bay Road.

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Reporting from Nome, Alaska - Most days in Nome, you're not likely to run into anybody you didn't see at the Breakers Bar on Friday night.

KODIAK, Alaska A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka hoisted a 68-year old man from Sitka Sound after his 36-foot fishing vessel Rascal reportedly started taking on water and sank about 9 p.m. Saturday.