Unalaska, AK – The Coast Guard successfully medevaced a 23-year-old man from the 230-foot F/T Seafisher when it was 170 miles north of Unalaska on Tuesday evening. The Coast Guard received a call around 10 pm saying that a man was suffering from abdominal distress and bleeding. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter that was pre-deployed to Cold Bay went through blowing snow and one mile visibility to reach the vessel in an hour and 15 minutes. They quickly hoisted up the crewman and delivered him to emergency personnel in Unalaska at 12:30 am on Wednesday. This rescue began just as another Coast Guard crew was rescuing the four crew members from the Northern Belle. That vessel went down in the Gulf of Alaska Tuesday afternoon. One crew member died.

Unalaska, AK – Aleutian World War II campaigns on Kiska and Adak are featured in a new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum in honor of national archaeology month. It features never-before-seen personal photos from both Japanese and American soldiers who served on Kiska during the war and artifacts from Adak. KUCB's Anne Hillman in Unalaska, home of the Aleutians World War II Historic Site, talked to one of the contributors, World War II specialist Dirk H. R. Spennemann. Check out some of the photos here.

Unalaska, AK – The new Akutan airport may mean fewer flights to Unalaska in the future. The airport is scheduled for completion in 2012 and will be built on Akun Island. Passengers will travel via hovercraft the seven miles to the village of Akutan and the Trident fish processing plant there. The runway will be long enough to allow flights directly from Anchorage to Akutan. Currently, almost everyone traveling to Akutan has to fly into Unalaska first.

Unalaska, AK – The city council discussed the small boat harbor again Tuesday night and tried to hammer out the final details. They did make one major decision. They will build the smaller version of the harbor building that only has individual, locking shower units; separate men's and women's restrooms; a large workshop for harbor employees; and a small workstation. They will not build new harbor offices, though those could be added at a later date.

Unalaska, AK – The 2010 state legislative session wrapped up at about 12:30 a.m. on Monday with a rush of bills being passed in the last few days of the session. District 37 Representative Bryce Edgmon said a number of them will have direct impacts on Unalaska.

One such bill will allow voters to decide whether or not to add four more representatives and two more senators to the state legislature. Edgmon said doing so might ensure that rural areas do not lose representation when districts are reapportioned in accordance with the 2010 census.

Unalaska, AK – Westward Seafoods was fined $570,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act at their Unalaska plant. Though the company agreed to negotiate a fine, they did not admit to committing the violations.

The violations occurred between 2002 and 2006. The state started investigating the problems but after asking for information from Westward seven different times and not receiving a response, the case was turned over to the EPA.

Unalaska, AK – The North Pacific Fisheries Research Foundation and groups of fishermen have developed and tested a new style of Chinook salmon excluder device for pollock trawl nets that works just in time for the Chinook salmon bycatch hard cap rules to go into place. KUCB's Anne Hillman found out how it works.

Unalaska, AK – The state's version of the Izembek land swap bill passed the state's House of Representatives Wednesday night and will now go on to the governor. The bill passed through the Senate earlier this week. The bill gives the Department of Natural Resources the authority to trade 43,000 acres of state land to the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in exchange for the 206 acres needed to build a one lane road corridor through the wilderness area to connect King Cove with the airport in Cold Bay.

Unalaska, AK – The Unalaska Department of Public Safety searched a home on Biorka Drive on Thursday evening and arrested two individuals for possession of controlled substances.

According to court documents, Public Safety developed information about the illegal sale and use of Oxycontin from the residence on John Bruce Jr. and obtained a search warrant for the house, his room, and the occupants of the house. Upon arrival, the officers detained the occupants, including Bruce, his brother Ryan Bruce, and Kiefer Fredricks. Bruce admitted that he had pills of oxycontin in the bathroom. The police found 24 pills that were identified as that drug and in the search they also seized $2,200, two electronic weighing scales, and two pill cutting devices