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Kodiak resident Daniel Rich walked the spit three times Friday, and it wasn’t for exercise. He was looking for KDM’s Crab Fest Token.

Come rain or shine, you’re less than 24 hours away from the start of the 65th annual Kodiak Crab Festival, and with it the second-annual Kodiak Daily Mirror Crab Fest

Thor Johnson was not planning on opening his business, The Emerald Game House, this soon, but the war in Ukraine sped up the process.

After months of discussion and deliberation, the Kodiak City Council has finally decided to build the new fire station at 1240 Mill Bay Road, which was purchased earlier this year

Schematic designs for the new fire station were presented to Kodiak City Council members on Tuesday, but councilors remain divided about where to put the building.

The Kodiak City Council is now seeking input from the community on where to put the new fire station after spending months looking at various locations around the city.  “If we are potentially going to put a multimillion-dollar facility in an area we know has the potential to be impacted by a tsunami, its incumbent upon us to let the community know that,” Councilor John Whiddon said last week.  The pre-design phase of the new fire station project began in October 2019. After mor...

The Kodiak City Council is considering ways to reduce the expense of building a new fire station after architects estimated that costs for the project could run as high as

The city’s fire chief has implored the Kodiak City Council to avoid selecting Von Scheele Way as the location of the new fire station.  Among the seven sites under consideration, the one at 170 Von Scheele Way adjacent to Safeway scored highest on a list of needs for the new station, but still presents obstacles.   “Do not stick us out on Von Scheele,” City Fire Chief Jim Mullican said at a meeting last week. “Putting the station out there will dramatically increase my...