Hope McKenney, KUCB - Unalaska
Southeast Alaska airline to relaunch passenger service on former Ravn routes
Alaska Seaplanes announced Tuesday it intends to relaunch passenger air service on routes formerly served by RavnAir Group, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
After 100 cases in June, Seattle seafood company reports 6 more crew have COVID-19 in Dutch Harbor
A Bering Sea trawler currently docked in Dutch Harbor has reported six cases of COVID-19 among its 119 crew members, officials said Friday.
A person was fatally poisoned by mussels in Dutch Harbor, and now Alaska warns of high toxin levels
A person has died from paralytic shellfish poisoning after eating blue mussels and snails in the Aleutian Island community of Unalaska, state health officials confirmed Wednesday.
‘One mussel could kill someone’: Officials warn of extremely high shellfish toxin levels in Unalaska
Alaska state and local health officials are warning of dangerous high levels of toxins in shellfish, after a person died of paralytic shellfish poisoning from mussels and snails in the Aleutian Island community of Unalaska.
PSP levels in shellfish samples near Unalaska test dangerously high
A recent report showed some of the highest ever recorded levels of PSP toxins in butter clams taken from the Alaska Peninsula community of King Cove in June
Sand Point loses half of police force
The police force of just five normally works on a two-week shift
Scientists say Unalaskans don’t need to worry, despite recent earthquakes near Makushin volcano
Over the past two weeks, several tremors have shaken Unalaska, but scientists say there isn't any current need to panic.
Following a series of earthquakes, Unalaska tested its tsunami sirens. Half failed.
Only three of the seven tsunami sirens in the Aleutian community worked, despite high seismic activity in the last week.
After fears, crew of American Seafoods vessel tests negative for COVID-19 in Unalaska
Over 100 asymptomatic crew members tested positive on three of the seafood company's other factory trawlers.
King Cove confirms first local case of COVID-19 in seafood industry worker
Henry Mack, mayor of the 900-person town, said the individual is an employee at the huge Peter Pan Seafoods plant.
Tustumena crew member tests positive for COVID-19, passengers quarantined
The Tustumena ferry’s sailings were canceled after a crew member tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday.
COVID-19 cases for Unalaska fish processor rise to 3
Unalaska officials have reported a third local case of COVID-19, after announcing the city's first two Wednesday.
Seafood industry workers test positive for COVID-19, marking first confirmed cases in Unalaska
The City of Unalaska has confirmed its first local cases of COVID-19. Two seafood industry workers tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.
86 crew members on American Seafoods trawler test positive for COVID-19
Eighty-six crew members of an American Seafoods trawler have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a press release from the seafood company Sunday night. Nine tests are still outstanding.
Dutch Harbor remains nation’s top fishing port for volume
Dutch Harbor's value for fish landings went up by $9 million between 2017 and 2018. But it went up by $41 million in Naknek.
21-year-old Unalaska snowmachiner dies in avalanche
Trey Henning was buried in the avalanche and later recovered from the site near the quarry on Overland Drive. In a statement, the Department of Public Safety said life-saving measures were unsuccessful.
NTSB releases preliminary report on Medevac plane crash in Unalaska
While the early findings establish some of the facts surrounding the Jan. 16 crash, the chief of the NTSB's Alaska Regional Office said it's too soon to pinpoint the cause.
Activity decreases at Shishaldin Volcano following months of unrest
Following a series of flight-canceling explosions, activity at Shishaldin Volcano has decreased over the past three weeks.
After car trouble on a rural road, an Unalaska teenager dies of hypothermia
The state medical examiner has ruled hypothermia as the cause of death of Alexis Magalong, an 18-year-old high school senior who was found dead Saturday near Unalaska's Summer Bay.
Crew of cargo ship from China to remain onboard in Unalaska due to coronavirus quarantine
The U.S. Coast Guard is taking precautionary measures with the 711-foot boat in light of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China