Unalaska, AK – City council will meet tonight for a brief meeting after an hour-and-a-half long presentation on the Carl E. Moses Boat Harbor. PND Engineers and Pacific Pile and Marine will talk about the inner harbor design and gather public input starting at 5:30 pm.

At the official meeting, the city council will hear a presentation from the city's attorney on the annual legal report before discussing their budget goals for FY11. According to the city manager, the city may have to pull up to $23 million dollars from the city's savings to fund projects for the upcoming fiscal year. Along with the budget, they will look at a necessary resolution allowing the city to bond for $5 million dollars to pay for part of the new small boat harbor. This is a new resolution to replace one passed in November. It allows the city to try for new, possibly better Build America bonds and to get better interest rates on older bonds. That could save the city between $10 and 12 thousand dollars. The $5 million dollar bond was originally approved by voters in 2005 and will be reimbursed by the state.

Unalaska, AK – Black, foul-smelling smoke billowed from the APL dock around 5 pm on Friday. Witnesses say the fire started when a crew from Magone Marine was working on dismantling the fallen crane. Foam caught on fire sending out lots of smoke but did not injure anyone. Fire fighters responded quickly to the scene and started immediately to extinguish the fire. KUCB will bring you more details when they become available.

Unalaska, AK – The results from last year's personal flotation device study are in. Researchers from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health interviewed 400 fishermen who used four different gear types - trawls, crab pots, longlines and gillnets. Two hundred of them tested different types of PFDs for a month. Eight-nine percent of the participants responded to questionnaires about their experiences. Among all of the fishermen, the favorite was a Mustang inflatable work vest.

Unalaska, AK – KUCB's public affairs call-in show allows listeners to ask questions of their elected and city officials. This month's show featured City Manager Chris Hladick and Mayor Shirley Marquardt. Listeners submitted all of the questions during the show and ahead of time. Find out more about the city's financial future, energy issues and more.

This is part two of the broadcast, hosted by KUCB's Anne Hillman. It originally aired on January 20, 2010.

Unalaska, AK – KUCB's public affairs call-in show allows listeners to ask questions of their elected and city officials. This month's show featured City Manager Chris Hladick and Mayor Shirley Marquardt. Listeners submitted all of the questions during the show and ahead of time. Find out more about the city's financial future, energy issues and more.

This is part one of the broadcast, hosted by KUCB's Anne Hillman. It originally aired on January 20, 2010.

Unalaska, AK – Magone Marine used explosives to blow the upper legs off of the over-turned APL container crane Wednesday evening. Magone was contracted to remove the crane and clean up the yard. The 970-ton, 110-foot tall container crane blew over during a 125 mile per hour wind storm on December 4, 2009.

Dan Magone said that using explosives for removing such heavy pieces of steel from high in the air is much safer than using blow torches and cranes. "And then the other part of it is you'd have to park the cranes on the concrete apron at the APL dock, which won't handle that much concentrated weight any way. The concrete would break if you loaded the cranes up that heavy."

Unalaska, AK – Wednesday's fire at Peking Restaurant is still under investigation. The Fire Marshal flew in from Anchorage that afternoon and is inspecting the building to determine the cause of the fire and the cost and extent of the damage. When he is finished, the buildings tenants will be allowed back in to start clean up efforts.

The fire was reported to Public Safety at 4:35 am on Wednesday when a person called to say he saw flames coming from the restaurant. On-duty police officers reported to the scene, woke the four residents who live in the apartment above the restaurant, and safely evacuated them from the building. When fire fighters arrived on the scene a few minutes later they evaluated the situation and called for more help. Fire Chief Brian Long said fighting fires in a building like that is more difficult than in other places.

Unalaska, AK – Unalaska resident and former UCB intern Monica Southworth is spending this month in Senegal as part of her French studies at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. She arrived in the small, Francophone West African nation on New Year's Day and will stay until February 8. Southworth grew up in Unalaska and will graduate this May. In the summer she plans to travel Tanzania to dig wells in a rural village with her boyfriend, Logan. KUCB's Anne Hillman spoke with her about some of her experiences in Senegal.

Unalaska, AK – As the Marine Stewardship Council is moving toward the re-certification of the pollock fishery as sustainable, Seafood Watch has downgraded its categorization of the fish from "Best Choice" to "Good Alternative."

The Marine Stewardship Council is the highest regarded independent certifier for sustainable fisheries. It was recently ranked the best seafood sustainability certifier by a World Wildlife Fund assessment. Pollock was first certified by MSC five years ago. Last week, independent evaluators said it qualifies for re-certification. Pat Shanahan, the program director for Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers, said the certification is additional evidence of the health of the fishery and having it improves sales.