A 24-year-old man was arrested last week for allegedly burglarizing a local business in September.

Ioane Faasavalu, of Unalaska, is accused of stealing property belonging to Aleutian Propane. The theft occurred while the business owner was out of town, and the items stolen included a car jack, a compressed air tank, wrenches, sockets, and ratchets. The value of the stolen goods is estimated at $750, and so far only the car jack has been recovered.

In 2010, voters passed an initiative requiring minors to inform a parent 48 hours before getting an abortion. This week, the Anchorage Superior Court upheld most of that law, and even okayed portions that were initially viewed as too burdensome. But while the court determined the law was constitutional, it didn’t endorse it as good public policy. KUCB’s Alexandra Gutierrez explains.

Tonight, city council will consider an irregular funding request from the Museum of the Aleutians.

Museum staff are asking for a $200,000 grant from the city's bed tax fund to put toward a new permanent exhibit. The bed tax on hotel and room reservations in Unalaska is set aside to pay for visitor industries, and historical and cultural programming.

The museum exhibit seems to fit into that category. But in a memo in to council included in the agenda packet, assistant city manager John Fulton says there isn't enough money in the tax fund to pay for the museum's request. Fulton lays out other options, and recommends that the city pay the grant in full using money from the general fund.

A Washington man crashed his vehicle on Saturday morning after allegedly driving drunk.

Gennadiy Davlikaev, 47, lost control of his pickup truck while traveling along Captains Bay Road shortly after 6am. His Ford F350 hit the rock face, and sustained approximately $2,000 worth of damage. Davlikaev suffered minor lacerations to his hands, but his passenger was unharmed. No other vehicles were involved in the accident.

The Aleutian Chain already gets a serious amount of vessel traffic, and the shipping route is set to get a lot busier as the Arctic warms up and as Canada prepares to increase oil exports to Asia.

That opens Unalaska up to the risk of maritime disasters, like the Selendang Ayu spill that happened in 2004. One of the ways to cut that risk is to make sure distressed vessels can be towed safely in rough and remote conditions. That’s where the emergency towing system comes in.

Police have cracked down on gambling at an area seafood processing plant.

Eileen Ceralde, Marlyn Baker, Luisa East, Amelito Maglasang, and Perla Salacup have all been charged with promoting unlawful gambling. The crime is a Class A misdemeanor. The maximum penalty for the crime is a $10,000 fine and a year in prison.

The Unalaska Department of Public Safety launched their investigation in July, after receiving a tip that high-stakes games were going on at Unisea. Michael Centeno, an employee with the company, filed a complaint that he had played a game called “paycheck poker” and that the organizers were profiting. Sgt. Jennifer Shockley explains the rules.

After a major surge last year, the Bering Sea snow crab quota has dropped back down again. Fish and Game announced an allowable harvest of 66.4 million pounds on Friday, a 25 percent decrease over last season.

This year’s harvest is still larger than most years since 1999, when scientists determined the stock was overfished. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared it officially rebuilt earlier this year.

Rendering of house slated to be built in Sand Point. Courtesy of Aleutian Housing Authority.

Last year, the Aleutian Housing Authority challenged architects to design an affordable, net-zero energy home that could withstand the region’s hostile climate while adhering to the world’s strictest green building standards.

Not an easy task, but more than one hundred teams entered the contest. Trying to build the winning design though proved just how formidable a challenge AHA had posed.

Despite dire predictions that the Bristol Bay red king crab fishery might not open this season, the allowable harvest that Fish and Game announced Wednesday is actually slightly higher than last year. 

“The legal and mature male abundance didn’t actually change much from last year," says area management biologist Heather Fitch. "However the average weight went up a little bit, so that’s how we ended up with about the same TAC [total allowable catch].”