Unalaska, AK – The assistant engineer on the Alaska Ranger admitted Wednesday to drinking alcohol on the factory trawler. But Rodney Lundy said he never did it during his watch on the ship, which sank in the Bering Sea late last month. In Unalaska, KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Unalaska, AK – A Marine Board of Investigation continued its inquiry into the Alaska Ranger's sinking in Unalaska on Monday, looking at what pre-existing conditions on the ship might have contributed to last week's incident. KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Unalaska, AK – A surviving crew member from the Alaska Ranger told Coast Guard investigators on Sunday that he believed alcohol use may have been a problem on the ship, before and possibly while the ship sank in the Bering Sea a week ago. Another crew member disputed that account. In Unalaska, KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Unalaska, AK – The Coast Guard concluded its first day of a Marine Board of Investigation into the sinking of the Alaska Ranger in Unalaska today. In about six hours of testimony from the Alaska Ranger's first assistant engineer James Madruga, and the sister ship Alaska Warrior's captain, Scott Krey, and mate, Raymond Falante, the panel pieced together some of the story of the ship's sinking. The exact cause, however, remains unclear. In Unalaska, KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Unalaska, AK – High-ranking Coast Guard officials and investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board have convened in Unalaska for a public hearing on the sinking of the fishing vessel Alaska Ranger on Sunday. The proceedings begin tomorrow, but in the meantime details are gradually emerging on what happened in the early hours of Easter on the Bering Sea. KIAL's Charles Homans spoke with one of the ship's crew members, who described the Alaska Ranger's final hours.

Unalaska, AK – Mayor Shirley Marquardt said she won't be accepting an invitation from Shell Oil to travel to Norway on the company's tab to learn more about offshore natural gas exploration.

Shell is hoping to drill for gas in the North Aleutian Basin, in an area of Bristol Bay that is important red king crab habitat. The company had invited to pay for Marquardt to attend and speak on a panel at a conference on the socioeconomic dimensions of Arctic development hosted by Norway's Bodo University in May, and to tour the Statoil Snohvit natural gas facility in the Barents Sea. The mayors of Dillingham and the Aleutians East Borough were also invited.

Unalaska, AK – On Friday the Coast Guard will begin its formal inquiry into what caused a fishing boat to sink in the Bering Sea on Sunday morning. Five men were killed when the Alaska Ranger sank in the early hours of Easter Day, but why the boat went down is still unclear.

Although they haven't provided details yet, investigators will almost certainly be looking at how closely safety regulations were followed on the ship. KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Unalaska, AK – The Coast Guard has ended its search for the missing crew member from a fishing boat that sank in the Bering Sea Sunday morning. In Unalaska, KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Unalaska, AK – UPDATED 6:15 PM, MONDAY--A Coast Guard helicopter is still searching for the final missing crew member from the fishing vessel Alaska Ranger, which sunk Sunday morning in the Bering Sea west of Unalaska Island.

The missing man has been identified as Satoshi Konno, a Japanese national who was the fish master onboard the Alaska Ranger. Four members of the ship's crew are confirmed dead, including the captain. About half of the survivors arrived in Unalaska before dawn today, and the rest are safe onboard the Coast Guard cutter Munro, which is on its way back to Dutch Harbor.