Davis Hovey
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Andrew James Pillans, 30, was found dead Sunday afternoon at the base of the cliff on Long Island near Kodiak, troopers said. -
Alaska Aerospace owns and operates the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island, which will anchor for the 1,100-mile Pacific Test Range stretching southwest to Adak. -
A U.S. Coast Guard construction officer in Kodiak estimates that an additional 300 people will come to the base within the next 10 years. -
The Alaska Aerospace Corp. said Thursday night's launch, believed by some online space watchers to be a hypersonic missile test, was successful. -
The Coast Guard's acting commandant says Kodiak's 154-foot fast response cutters arriving this year can operate in the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea. -
The Alaska Aerospace Corp. says a request for information on temporary housing for up to 500 workers is related to the Trump administration's missile defense system. -
Flights to and from Kodiak were canceled after an Alaska Airlines plane hit more than one deer on the runway while landing. -
The discovery came during a spring survey of Alutiiq/Sugpiaq village sites on Shuyak Island, about 54 miles north of Kodiak by air. -
Two separate 4.5-magnitude earthquakes occurred within 45 miles of Kodiak on Thursday and Friday, among almost a dozen near the island within the past week. -
Ash from the 1912 Novarupta eruption periodically hits the west side of Kodiak Island, Larsen Bay and Karluk, roughly 65 miles away.
