The Alaska Dive Search, Rescue, and Recovery team found a Seldovia man dead inside a submerged vehicle near Seldovia Pier today; the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly commended the Nikiski High School Girls volleyball team and passed several items at its meeting last night; Juniors at Soldotna High School had the opportunity to learn the basics of career choices last week, during what the organizer says was the school’s first-ever job shadow day; and the annual Oil Spill Response training for fishing vessels kicked off yesterday, in Kodiak.

KBBI morning newscast for Wednesday 25/04/02

Seldovia middle school students attended a statewide science competition at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and received one gold medal at the event last week. Juniors at Soldotna High School had the opportunity to learn the basics of career choices last week during what the organizer says was the school’s first-ever job shadow day.

KBBI morning news - Tuesday Morning 04/01/2025

The pilot recently rescued off of a small plane in an icy, Kenai Peninsula lake may face disciplinary consequences, and be responsible for cleaning up the wreck. Mariners around Kodiak and across coastal Alaska rely on weather data coming from marine buoys to stay safe out on the water. The annual Oil Spill Response training for fishing vessels starts on April 1st through the 4th in Kodiak, April 7th through the 10th in Homer, and April 13 and 14 in Seward, with additional training later in the month in Cordova, Valdez, and Whittier. Just hours remain today for Alaskans to apply for a 2025 Permanent Fund Dividend check.

The pilot recently rescued off of a small plane in an icy, Kenai Peninsula lake may face disciplinary consequences, and be responsible for cleaning up the wreck; and a decades in the making pipeline that would transport natural gas between the North Slope and the Kenai Peninsula now has a new majority owner.

The City of Seldovia is responding to a security breach after a Dropbox account was compromised early Monday morning: a decades in the making pipeline that would transport natural gas between the North Slope and the Kenai Peninsula now has a new majority owner; and the ongoing spruce beetle outbreak in Alaska has now affected 2.25 million acres statewide. But last year, the new forest damage attributed to the beetles hit its lowest point since the outbreak began nearly a decade ago.

KBBI morning newscast, Friday-morning-03-28-2025

Homer High School junior Marina Co introduces the first local community job fair, scheduled to showcase potential summer employment positions in the community; and caregivers in Homer gathered last week to support state legislation to increase oversight of in-home care services and attempt to boost caregivers’ wages and benefits.

A new Native charter school is opening soon in Kenai, and former Homer resident Hannah Harrison, raised in the Cook Inlet commercial salmon industry and now living in Canada recently released a documentary focused on the Great Lakes commercial fisheries.