Unalaska, AK – The Unalaska City Council will meet for a special session this evening to try once again to pick an interim replacement for Rocky Caldero's seat.

An attempt to do so last week fell apart after a partial council voted 3-1 in favor of appointing Kris Flanagan, who lost his own seat in the October election. Because three votes is not the majority of the full council, the motion ended in a stalemate.

Unalaska, AK – The Unalaska Raiders' solid run in the Region 1 Girls' Volleyball Championships ended this afternoon after the Barrow Whalers came back to beat them in a close five-game match.

After Unalaska won the first two games of the set 25-19 and 25-20, Barrow came from behind to pick up three in a row 25-23, 25-18 and 15-9 to win the match. The Raiders exited the tournament with a 2-2 record, beating Aniak and Kotzebue and losing out to Bethel and Barrow.

Unalaska, AK – The Bethel Warriors are the 2007 Region 1 Girls' Volleyball Champions after beating the Dillingham Wolverines three games to one Saturday evening in Unalaska.

Warriors captain Ashley Fairbanks said it's a moment that she and the other seniors on the team have been waiting for since junior high.

"We've been planning this since seventh grade," she said. "We've always said, 'When we're seniors, we'll have an awesome team.' And we did."

Unalaska, AK – The National Weather Service has cancelled the high winds watch that was in place for Unalaska through today. As of yesterday, forecasters were predicting winds as high as 90 miles per hour today, but today's forecast shows things calming down considerably, and gusting to 45 miles per hour at the most.

Unalaska, AK – All nine visiting teams are now present and accounted for at the Region 1 girls' volleyball championships. In today's games:

-Barrow beat Bristol Bay in three straight games, 25-6, 25-4, 25-8.

-In the day's closest contest, Nome came from behind to beat Kotzebue 3-2. Kotzebue won the first game 25-18, lost the second 25-20 and won the third 28-26, but Nome picked up the last two games 25-8 and 15-11 for the win.

Unalaska, AK – The Region 1 girls' volleyball championships will start up again at 12:30 p.m. this afternoon, with two more teams on the island and ready to play.

The tournament got a late start yesterday, with Unalaska and Aniak kicking off the first game at 12:30 p.m. Most of the games were postponed, because several teams weren't here to play them. But the teams from Bethel and Kotzebue arrived late this morning, and the tournament will resume with Nome taking on Kotzebue at 12:30 in the high school gym.

Unalaska, AK – Increased fuel and utility costs in Unalaska are prompting the City Council to consider creating a community energy conservation committee.

Although plans for the committee are tentative, the general idea is to have five to seven community members, led by council member Dick Peck, explore and report back to the council and community on ways the city and its residents could conserve energy.

Unalaska, AK – Bad weather delayed the start of the Region 1 girls' volleyball championships, which are being held in Unalaska for the first time this week, but it wasn't enough to stop it.

The opening buzzer came at 2 p.m. today instead of 10:30 a.m. as originally scheduled, but teams were able to get in two of the scheduled sets of games this afternoon.

In the first set, Unalaska went 3-0 against Aniak, beating the visitors 25-12 in the first game and 25-7 in each of the following games. Koliganek also shut out Hooper Bay in three games, 25-5, 25-8 and 25-16.

Unalaska, AK – Although Unalaska got a reprieve from yesterday's high winds today, continuing heavy rains have caused problems for at least one local business.

Rain and snowmelt eroded the banks of a creek flowing out of the Pyramid Valley and flooded the crab pot yard maintained by Offshore Systems, Inc. at the end of Captains Bay Road this morning. OSI's operating facilities manager, Craig Rice, said the moved earth divided the stream into three channels, which quickly swelled and flooded the pot yard and part of the road.