A plan to prevent oil spills by moving ship traffic further off shore in the Aleutian Islands is moving forward.
The International Maritime Organization approved a set of areas to be avoided in the Aleutians at a subcommittee meeting in London on Friday.
The plan came to the United Nations body from the U.S. Coast Guard. It’s part of recommendations by the Aleutian Islands Risk Assessment, released last fall.
The active shooter drill was proposed by the crew of the USCG cutter Munro. (Pipa Escalante/KUCB)
The Coast Guard is teaming up with emergency personnel in Unalaska to practice their response to a mass shooting on the docks -- in one of the region’s busiest ports.
On Friday afternoon, a lone gunman will approach the Coast Guard cutter Munro at its berth in the City Dock and begin firing off blanks.
Dock workers offload a weekly mail and grocery delivery from the Horizon Kodiak on a recent Friday. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)
City officials went head-to-head with union workers on Tuesday, trying to assure them that they’d keep their jobs once the city finds an anchor tenant for the Unalaska Marine Center.
City manager Chris Hladick says he expects they’ll only have interest from companies who would use the established local workforce.
"We never envisioned that this would become about the labor," he said. "This is about growing."
The city is looking for a new shipping partner to help finance this $46 million-dollar dock expansion. (Courtesy: City of Unalaska)
City council will take a second look at a proposal to find a new anchor tenant at the Unalaska Marine Center tonight. But after ample public comment, the draft of the request for proposals hasn’t changed much.
The city's new draft request for proposals aims to address the concerns of dozens of union laborers, who asked for assurances that their jobs would be safe no matter what company got the city's new contract for the preferred use of the dock.
The hiker called for help from Mt. Coxcomb around 9:30 Friday night.
Emergency personnel rescued a hiker and her dog from a precarious peak in Unalaska this weekend.
Fire chief Zac Schasteen says a woman in her late twenties called for help after she became stuck on Mt. Coxcomb on Friday night.
The terrain was rough on the mountain, which overlooks Summer Bay. Schasteen says the woman wasn’t dressed for ice and snow -- and was only carrying water when she first set out from Memorial Park with her dog.
What goes up must come down -- and the crane that Horizon Lines has kept at the Unalaska Marine Center dock for more than 20 years is no exception.
Horizon has hired R.L. Moore Metal Recycling to remove the crane from its rails. Traffic was stopped on Ballyhoo Road around 4 p.m. on Thursday as the contractors made their second attempt in as many days.
Ron Moore says his company has performed similar jobs at ports in Virginia. But the Horizon crane presents a unique problem.
