Unalaska, AK – On October 2, Unalaskans will go to the polls to pick a mayor and two city council members. Nine candidates are vying for the three positions and next week, Unalaska Community Broadcasting will be giving you a chance to ask them the questions that matter to you as a voter at our Candidate's Forum. That event will be held live in the Burma Road Chapel on September 27 and broadcast on Channel 8. If you have questions for the candidates, you can ask them in person that evening, or you can submit them ahead of time by e-mailing us at news@kial.org.
Unalaska, AK – On October 2, Unalaskans will go to the polls to pick a mayor and two city council members. Nine candidates are vying for the three positions and next week, Unalaska Community Broadcasting will be giving you a chance to ask them the questions that matter to you as a voter at our Candidate's Forum. That event will be held live in the Burma Road Chapel on September 27 and broadcast on Channel 8. If you have questions for the candidates, you can ask them in person that evening, or you can submit them ahead of time by e-mailing us at news@kial.org.
Unalaska, AK – Icicle Seafoods will pay $900,000 for failing to clean up a pile of fish waste off the coast of Unalaska in a settlement reached with the Environmental Protection Agency.
The settlement was agreed upon in June and filed with the agency this week. The case started four years ago when an inspector for the state Department of Environmental Conservation found that a 1-acre pile of fish waste had accumulated under the Northern Victor, a floating processor owned by Icicle and anchored in Udagak Bay off of Unalaska. The waste amounted to a violation of the Clean Water Act.
Unalaska, AK – Divers have found the body of a fisheries observer who was reported missing yesterday in Unalaska.
The body of 25-year-old Jay Alderman was recovered in Captains Bay near the Westward Seafoods processing plant dock this morning.
"He was off the Westward dock, in approximately the same location as his boat was docked on the morning of the 19th, when he was last seen," said Sgt. Matt Betzen of the Unalaska Public Safety Department.
Unalaska, AK – On October 2, Unalaskans will go to the polls to pick a mayor and two city council members. Nine candidates are vying for the three positions and next week, Unalaska Community Broadcasting will be giving you a chance to ask them the questions that matter to you as a voter at our Candidate's Forum. That event will be held live in the Burma Road Chapel on September 27 and broadcast on Channel 8. If you have questions for the candidates, you can ask them in person that evening, or you can submit them ahead of time by e-mailing us at news@kial.org.
Unalaska, AK – Following a visit to Washington, D.C. last week, city officials are optimistic about their chances of securing federal funding for geothermal exploration near Makushin Volcano.
Mayor Shirley Marquardt, City Manager Chris Hladick and members of the Unalaska City Council met last week with Alaska's congressional delegation and staff from the Department of Energy to discuss the prospect of getting federal grants for the geothermal project. Marquardt said they seemed receptive to the idea.
Unalaska, AK – This evening, Unalaskans will have a rare chance to peak beneath the surface of the ocean that surrounds us here in the Aleutians. Divers Reid Brewer and Roger Deffendall will be sharing photographs from their recent dive trip to the western Aleutians, a 40-day expedition that took them from Attu Island to Seguam Island.
"It was kind of a voyage of discovery in a place where nobody really had been diving before," said Brewer, a marine biologist with University of Alaska Fairbanks's Marine Advisory Program in Unalaska. "The ecosystem really changes when you get to the Islands of the Four Mountains--it really opens up the visibility, and it allows for photographers to take some amazing pictures."
Unalaska, AK – The dead humpback whale that spent the past three days offshore from Little South America on Amaknak Island has been towed out to sea. Samples and photographs were taken of the dead marine mammal yesterday, three days after it was first found floating in Broad Bay, and it was sunk at sea earlier today.
Unalaska, AK – Joanna Aldridge has announced that she's withdrawing from the race for her former City Council seat.
Aldridge was not available for comment today, although she sent out a brief written statement citing "family and work obligations" in the decision. She had filed last month to run again for Council Seat C, from which she had stepped down in February, citing family reasons. That put her in competition with current council member Roger Rowland, who had been appointed to fill her seat for the remainder of her term. Valerie Lemas is also running for the seat.
