The Raiders boys’ basketball team fell to Dillingham in a pair of close games this past weekend, as they head into the end of their regular season.

The boys played away on Saturday and Monday. The first game went into overtime, and came down to a three-pointer from Dillingham with just a second on the clock. That gave the Wolverines a 49-48 win.

Located in the Public Safety building, Unalaska's jail usually houses two or three prisoners a night. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)

The state has added back most of the funding it planned to cut for community jails like the one in Unalaska.

The governor’s amended budget, released Wednesday, restores $7 million out of the $10.4 million jails fund, which pays for local lock-ups in 15 Alaska towns.

That would still mean a big cut for what police say is a vital program. At a legislative hearing this week, Corrections Commissioner Ronald Taylor said he's looking into ways to help offset the remaining shortfall.

As Shell tries to chart a course back to the Arctic this summer, the company is looking for new space to store its drill rigs in Unalaska.

Shell has asked the Alaska Department of Natural Resources to sign off on three moorage sites for the Noble Discoverer and the Polar Pioneer -- all on on state-owned tidelands. If they’re approved, the rigs could cycle through Wide Bay, Nateekin Bay, and the edge of Summer Bay until 2019.

Two people accused of mailing meth and heroin to Unalaska this fall have been cleared of state charges.

Assistant district attorney Laura Dulic says the case against Kyle Eby, 30, and Jesse Lee, 24, is now being considered for federal prosecution.

As of Monday, no charges have been filed in U.S. District Court.

TelAlaska's Jan Newkirk waited out the service interruption in the company's office on East Broadway. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)

A blown transformer took down the city’s entire power grid for a short time on Friday, disrupting landline phone service and even 911.

The problem apparently started during a transformer installation on East Point Road.

A contractor was hooking up service to the Pacific Stevedoring warehouse, which is being remodeled after a fire last summer.

The violations happened aboard the M/V City of Tokyo in 2014. (Courtesy: U.S. Attorney's Office)

A shipping company has pleaded guilty to illegally dumping oily bilge water in the eastern Aleutians last summer.

AML Ship Management of Germany agreed to pay $800,000 in fines for Clean Water Act violations that happened on a vehicle carrier in August 2014.

AML has admitted that the chief engineer of the M/V City of Tokyo used a pump hooked up to the bilge tank to discharge the water straight overboard, without filtering it through pollution equipment first. The vessel was 165 miles south of Sanak Island at the time.

Shell wants to use its Noble Discoverer drill rig to explore the Chukchi Sea this summer. (KUCB)

Federal regulators are suggesting that Shell’s disputed oil leases in the Chukchi Sea be left intact.

That’s the conclusion of a new assessment of Lease Sale 193 -- the auction where Shell and other companies spent more than $2 billion on Arctic drilling prospects. 

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released its final analysis today, almost a year after a federal appeals court ordered them to double-check how much development the sale would trigger in the Chukchi. 

City manager Chris Hladick and deputy police chief Mike Holman at KUCB's studios. (Annie Ngo/KUCB)

In just under two weeks, it’ll become legal for Alaskans over age 21 to possess up to an ounce of marijuana. But the certainties pretty much end there.

Unalaska's deputy police chief Mike Holman and city manager Chris Hladick join us to talk more about getting the city ready for the new industry. 

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A ban on the public consumption of marijuana will get a public hearing at a special city council meeting next week.

Councilors took a first look at the ordinance Tuesday night.

It would put the ballot measure voters approved last fall into local law -- setting a $100 fine for marijuana consumption in public places, making it illegal for people under 21 and limiting how many plants are allowed for personal use. 

Council took it up after an hour-long debrief from police on a recent marijuana conference in Colorado.