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The M/V Tustumena will not be making stops in False Pass, Akutan or Unalaska in May. An Alaska Marine Highway System spokesperson said the state ferry is undergoing a leak repair before its seasonal launch this year.
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Unalaska is still slated for its first cannabis dispensary, but the opening date has been pushed back from spring to fall.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce is giving the Aleutian Islands community of King Cove $888,789 for a new boat hoist, an action it says will support the region's fishing industry.
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The Alaska Marine Highway System released its 2024 summer schedule, and the M/V Tustumena is scheduled to make one Aleutian chain run a month from May through September, totaling five port calls in Dutch Harbor.
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Akutan is set to be the next Aleutian community to get hooked up to fiber-optic broadband internet. The Alaska-based telecommunications company GCI said in a Wednesday statement they expect to finish laying cable around the island community by the end of the month.
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KUCB’s Theo Greenly sat down with U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Tyler Justus to talk about the current situation.
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2023 was a year of major news and community happenings in Unalaska. KUCB's Mary Heimes and Theo Greenly rang in the new year with a recap of local coverage.
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There is no immediate risk of fire aboard the Genius Star XI, according to a statement from the Coast Guard released Sunday evening.
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The fire aboard the Genius Star XI seems to have subsided, and the vessel is anchored in Broad Bay as of Saturday evening.
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A cargo ship carrying burning lithium-ion batteries remained anchored off the coast of Unalaska Saturday, as marine firefighting experts continued responding to the situation.
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The claims to extended continental shelf territory, to be asserted by the U.S. State Department, include an area within the Arctic Ocean that is bigger than California.
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Gregory Golodoff was sitting in a sod house when the soldiers arrived. “We had heard machine gunfire from this side, this side, you know. I forgot who it was told us they’re coming from this side, they’re coming from that,” Golodoff said in a 2018 interview — 75 years after the Battle of Attu. The Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Unangax̂ village in 1942, where the three-year-old Golodoff lived with his family.