Kodiak Island Borough

Four of seven Kodiak Assembly seats are on the Oct. 6 ballot

Four of the seven Kodiak Island Borough Assembly seats are on the Oct. 6 ballot, all elected borough-wide. Early voting runs Sept. 21 to Oct. 5.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak district asks school board to weigh closing East Elementary in 2027

Kodiak may close East Elementary in 2027. Five weeks before proposing that, the district asked the state for $5.75 million to renovate the building.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Kodiak's Assembly can't agree on how often to meet remotely

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly members can't agree on how many meetings a year they may attend remotely, the last open question in a rules rewrite.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak hospital chiller running at a third of capacity; borough moves to accept $3.85 million to replace it

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly votes Thursday to accept $3.85 million in state funding to replace a failing hospital chiller that is limiting emergency and surgical care on the island.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak's hospital runs on power switches nobody makes parts for anymore

The power switches at Kodiak's hospital are 27 years old and out of production. Crews scavenge parts from other sites. The borough is now replacing them.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readFrom Jun 29

Kodiak names a third person to run the borough when the top two are out

Kodiak Island Borough now has a third person in line to run it. He gets his first turn in December, when everyone above him is at a conference.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak's landfill is out of compliance because bears keep getting in

Kodiak gave every household a bear-resistant cart. Bears keep getting into the landfill anyway, and the borough wants to talk about it privately.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Kodiak's school board has met four times over something it will not name

Kodiak's school board has met four times in 18 days on a personnel matter identified only as "KAP," entirely in closed session, with no minutes published.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Kodiak Assembly takes up its vacancy rewrite Thursday, with the public hearing Sept. 17

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will introduce Thursday an ordinance that would start the clock for filling vacant seats the day a resignation is accepted and allow electronic applications.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak can't sell four lots it has owned since 1986 because they can't get a permit

Kodiak bought the land for a hospital in 1986, built ball fields instead, and still can't sell four lots that can't get a building permit.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Kodiak Island Borough clerk drafts ordinance to tighten Assembly vacancy rules

Kodiak Island Borough Clerk Nova Javier drafted an ordinance requiring Assembly vacancy applicants to certify voter registration, residency, and willingness to file financial disclosures upfront.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak takes its landfill bear problem behind closed doors

Kodiak's landfill can't keep bears out, the borough could be fined for feeding wildlife, and now the Assembly is taking the bear problem behind closed doors.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Bears are still raiding the Kodiak dump, weeks after a state plan to keep them out

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly tightens absence rule in 6-1 vote

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly lowered the absence threshold to 25 percent of meetings to forfeit a seat, down from 50 percent, and now counts work sessions in that total.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Kodiak rezone would raise Cliff Point lot minimums to five acres

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly opened a hearing on rezoning twenty Cliff Point lots to require five-acre minimum sizes, reducing how many homes can be built there.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Kodiak fights landfill bears with a second fence and a look at composting

Bears keep breaking into Kodiak's landfill, so the borough is fighting back two ways: a fence to keep them out and composting to cut the waste that draws them.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 6

Filing closes at 3 p.m. Monday with no publicly known candidate for 12 Kodiak Island Borough seats

Filing closes Monday at 3 p.m. for 16 Kodiak Island Borough seats on the October ballot, but no candidates have publicly filed for 12 of them, including all 10 service area board positions.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Kodiak Island Borough first-half property taxes due Monday, borough page still says Saturday

Kodiak Island Borough property taxes are due Monday, August 17, not Saturday as the borough's tax page still says. Miss the deadline and you owe a 10 percent penalty plus 1 percent monthly interest.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

State says Kodiak landfill is out of compliance on bears and borough could be fined

Alaska says Kodiak's landfill violates wildlife rules because bears keep reaching trash, and the borough could face fines for negligently feeding them. A $250,000 fence won't solve it alone.

by Bill AlaskaNews3mo ago3 min read

Follows: Bears are still raiding the Kodiak dump, weeks after a state plan to keep them out

A majority of Kodiak's assembly is up for election this fall

A majority of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly — four of seven seats — is up in the Oct. 6 election, and candidates have until Monday to file.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Kodiak keeps a road-sand storage lease its assembly had said it wanted to end

Kodiak's Service Area No. 1 will keep paying ~$12,600 a year to store road sand on a lease several assembly members had said last fall they wanted ended.

by Bill AlaskaNews3mo ago3 min read

Kodiak votes Thursday on barring officials from stacking offices, and staff say it's broken

Kodiak votes Thursday on barring officials from holding more than one local office, but staff say it's broken and would make the borough code contradict itself.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Bears are still raiding the Kodiak dump, weeks after a state plan to keep them out

Bears are still raiding the Kodiak dump weeks after the state approved a plan to keep them out, because the landfill is full of fish and game waste they can't resist.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

A Larsen Bay spillway is 'nearing failure' and unfunded in Kodiak's list

A spillway supplying Larsen Bay's water and power is "nearing failure," but the $1.2 million fix isn't funded and ranks sixth, in Kodiak's out-year pile.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Kodiak is projected to lose about 1,200 residents by 2045 as young adults leave

Kodiak is projected to lose about 1,200 people by 2045, shrinking every census since 2000 as young adults leave — numbers one business owner called "scary."

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Kodiak moves to boot Assembly members who don't show up

Kodiak's Assembly may start booting members who miss a quarter of meetings, down from half, tightening the rule on no-shows. One member wants more virtual attendance instead.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Filing deadline nears for Kodiak's October election, with an Assembly seat already open

Kodiak Island Borough residents have until 3 p.m. Aug. 17 to file for the Oct. 6 election — with seats open on the Assembly, School Board and service area boards, including one already-vacant Assembly seat.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Riding a defense boom, Kodiak looks to send a member to D.C. for funds

Amid a defense boom — icebreakers, a Coast Guard base and missile-defense launches — Kodiak is moving to send a member to D.C. for infrastructure money.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Should every Kodiak nonprofit get the same grant? One assembly member says yes

A Kodiak assembly member wants every nonprofit in a category to get the same grant to avoid favoritism; others prefer need-based amounts. The Humane Society, currently zeroed out, is the flashpoint. Vote Aug. 6.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Kodiak Assembly splits over what a marijuana tax should pay for

Kodiak's Assembly is fighting over what a proposed 3% marijuana tax should fund before deciding whether to even put it to voters in October.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Nearly half of Kodiak's landfill is organic. A resident wants the borough to look at composting.

With 43% of Kodiak's landfill made up of organic waste, resident Marion Owen has asked the borough's waste board to study whether community composting could work.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Kodiak wants dispatch to sound tsunami sirens without waiting for a federal alert

Kodiak may let dispatchers sound tsunami sirens the moment they see the signs, without waiting for a federal alert — a change built for a coast where the wave can outrun the warning.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Kodiak weighs a 3% marijuana tax, and a dispensary owner cries foul

Kodiak may tax marijuana 3% for a community well-being fund — but a dispensary owner says pot keeps getting singled out as the island's sin of choice.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Kodiak Reentry seeks borough funds as nonprofit grant requests outstrip budget

A volunteer-run Kodiak reentry group that helps people leave incarceration for treatment is asking the borough for rent money — in a year when the grant fund is badly oversubscribed.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Kodiak hospital pauses reverse osmosis, steam generator design

Kodiak hospital paused design work on a reverse osmosis system after discovering it may not work with existing sterilization equipment, with a facility evaluation set for August 3.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago1 min read

Kodiak weighs sounding its tsunami sirens the moment a warning hits

Kodiak may set its tsunami sirens to sound the instant a warning hits, and let dispatch trigger them on local signs before any federal alert arrives.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Kodiak boats have nowhere legal to store hazardous waste

Kodiak boats make hazardous waste year-round, but the island collects it twice a year — and nowhere on Kodiak can legally hold it in between.

by Bill AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min readFrom Sep 30, 2025

ADEC proposes final discharge permit for Kodiak landfill leachate plant

Alaska regulators issued a proposed final permit allowing Kodiak Island Borough to discharge 288,000 gallons daily of treated landfill leachate into a wetland draining to Monashka Bay.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago1 min read

Roald Amundsen brings 530 passengers to Kodiak on August 2

Cruise ship Roald Amundsen docks in Kodiak on August 2 with 530 passengers for a nine-hour port call.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Bayside fire chief wants new career position but warns against a rushed hire

Bayside Fire Chief Scott Ellis says a new career firefighter position is needed but warned the borough board against rushing the hire to avoid splitting the mixed career and volunteer staff.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago1 min read

Four candidates interview for Kodiak Island Borough Assembly vacancy

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly interviewed four candidates Thursday to fill a vacant Assembly seat and must appoint someone by June 25.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read