An unknown amount of fuel has spilled from a fishing vessel that ran aground near St. George Island earlier this month, according to a situation report released by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation on Tuesday.

Unalaska’s Department of Motor Vehicles office has been closed for more than two months, with no reopening date in sight.

After receiving and reviewing 17 applications, the Unalaska school board selected four top candidates for the island’s vacant superintendent position during an executive session Friday evening.

On Tuesday night, the Unalaska City Council voted unanimously to appoint former Unalaska Fire Chief Abner Hoage as the new interim city manager.

Alaska’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday that aims to reduce bycatch in parts of southwest Alaska using better marine data, technology and gear.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has named Unalaska’s Alyssa McDonald as interim director of the Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham. McDonald took over on Jan. 11 and will serve until a permanent director is found.

Unalaska’s cell and internet service has been fully restored, after GCI’s fiber cable was damaged during a late December storm.

Some of Alaska's largest pollock processors are abandoning a foreign worker visa program that once supplied up to half their workforce, citing rising costs and uncertainty under stricter immigration policies.

Crews have started repairs on GCI’s subsea fiber cable in Unalaska. Megan Webb, director of corporate communications for the internet and cell phone provider, said in an email Wednesday morning that crews had retrieved both ends of the cable from the seafloor and are prepping them for splicing.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued nine people from a fishing vessel that ran aground Monday morning near St. George Island in the Bering Sea, the agency said in a press release. The release said that no one was injured.