Unalaska, AK – A 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in a UniSea bunkhouse Tuesday afternoon.

Omar Ali Danyerow was charged with second- and third-degree sex assault. A criminal complaint filed at Unalaska's District Court on Wednesday alleges that Danyerow attempted to have sex with his roommate's girlfriend while she was sleeping. The victim and her boyfriend had been drinking after getting off of work, and fell asleep in bed before the incident occurred. In his statement to Department of Public Safety officers, Danyerow disputed the woman's account of what happened. He said that the woman was awake and consenting at the time, but that he didn't actually have sex with her.

Unalaska, AK – Pacific Stevedoring, Inc., a major transportation provider in Unalaska, wants to build a large cold-storage facility and dock in Dutch Harbor. The plan has drawn criticism from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Unalaska, AK – Local truck drivers say that deteriorating road conditions in Unalaska are costing their companies tens of thousands of dollars a year in repairs and man-hours, and they want the city to do something about it.

That was the message of a well-attended town hall meeting at City Hall last night. City Manager Chris Hladick called the meeting in response to a letter sent to him two weeks ago and signed by local representatives of six transportation companies, American Seafoods and the local chapter of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. The letter, which was written by American President Lines Dutch Harbor Operations Manager Brian Sewell, says that road conditions "are at best bone jarring and at worst dangerously unsafe" for truck drivers.

Unalaska, AK – City Council member Joanna Aldridge is giving up her seat on the council. In a letter sent to Mayor Shirley Marquardt on Sunday, Aldridge said she's taking a six-month leave from her job in Unalaska to spend time with her parents in Washington state.

The council accepted Aldridge's resignation, which is effective March 1, at last night's council meeting. Her seat is up for election in October, and the council will make a decision on who to appoint as an interim member at its February 27 meeting. Interested applicants have until then to submit letters of interest to the council.

Unalaska, AK – The City of Unalaska will ask the Army Corps of Engineers to extend a public comment period concerning a large cold-storage facility on Ballyhoo Road planned by Pacific Stevedoring, Inc.

PacSteve plans to build a 125,000-square-foot cold storage facility and warehouse on Ballyhoo Road near the city dock, a project which would involve filling in a small area in Dutch Harbor. The project could begin construction as soon as this spring, and would significantly expand PacSteve's operations in Unalaska. But opponents of the project argue that it would take business away from the city dock, and that its environmental impacts haven't been adequately examined.

Unalaska, AK – The Unalaska City Council will convene this evening at City Hall for its regular meeting.

The meeting will offer the second of two opportunities for public comment on the city's brownfield cleanup plan for its new powerhouse construction. The land that would be used for the proposed expansion of the city's powerhouse is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. There is concern that once construction begins, soil erosion could lead to the PCBs contaminating Iliuliuk Bay if the material isn't properly contained.

Unalaska, AK – The crew of the fishing vessel Illusion was rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter after the boat went down in Makushin Bay Friday night.

The cause of the incident shortly after 11 p.m. wasn't known today. All four crew members made it into the Illusion's life raft and activated an EPIRB, and they were rescued by a helicopter from the Coast Guard cutter Mellon about three hours later.

Unalaska, AK – A man driving a jeep on Broadway late this morning rolled his vehicle into Unalaska Lake.

The driver, Koy Okende, was taken to the Iliuliuk Health Clinic for treatment for hypothermia and minor cuts and bruises. His jeep was pulled out of the lake at about 11:15 a.m., but was badly damaged.

Witnesses told public safety officers that Okende was driving about 20 miles an hour when he lost control of his vehicle on the icy road, hit the curb and rolled into the lake. Bystanders helped Okende across the street to Eagle's View Elementary School, where he stayed warm until paramedics arrived.

Unalaska, AK – Another search for any sign of a man missing off the Northern Victor was unsuccessful.

Diver Jimmer McDonald of MAC Enterprises said today that two more days of diving in Beaver Inlet looking for Joseph Arop failed to turn up any trace of the 23-year-old seafood processor. Arop disappeared from the processing vessel Northern Victor a week ago. The ship is anchored in Udagak Bay with about 200 processors and crew onboard.