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4 days ago | kmxt.org | Brian Venua

“Am I thankful for the 500 inside the BSA? Yes,” said Cyndy Mika, the Kodiak Island Borough School District’s superintendent. “Is it very much money? No. And is it less than we got from the state last year? Yes.”The state approved $680 per student in a one-time boost last year. Increasing education funding has been a massive back and forth between the Alaska Legislature and Gov. Dunleavy. The Legislature approved three bills in the last two years to increase the formula, all of which were vetoed.

1 week ago | kmxt.org | Brian Venua

1 week ago | kmxt.org | Brian Venua

Twenty Alaska high school students were part of a mass panic at the National Speech and Debate Association's tournament in Des Moines, Iowa on June 19. No major injuries were reported by the association, but at least two Alaska teenagers have minor ones. A Kodiak teen has a bruised knee after she and a chaperone were trampled during the evacuation according to Kodiak’s coach, Jared Griffin. Another kid from Anchorage also has a few bruises after helping them in the rush.

1 week ago | kmxt.org | Theo Greenly

Research published last month in the journal Marine Mammal Science linked fur seal deaths in the Bering Sea to the same toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. It marks the first documented case of harmful algal blooms leading to a marine mammal die-off in Alaska. Last summer, about ten dead fur seals washed up on a beach on St. Paul Island, a small community in the middle of the Bering Sea.

1 week ago | kmxt.org | Davis Hovey

Some of Kodiak’s museums want to use space in the old hospital building to store hundreds of historical items. But before they can do that, the City Council has requested an architecture firm draw up designs on how the Griffin Memorial Hospital building’s space could be divided up. The future of the former 18-bed hospital on 316 Mission Road near downtown Kodiak has not yet been decided.