Unalaska, AK – The Unalaska City Council will address the community's need for recycling and public restrooms at its meeting tonight at City Hall.
The Qawalangin Tribe is scheduled to present its business plan for a recycling program for Unalaska. The tribe offered a proposal at the October 10 meeting for a program that would recycle aluminum and fiber products. Tribal administrator Sharon Svarny-Livingston said the program would cost the city about $158,000 in its first year. A more detailed financial plan will be presented tonight.
Unalaska, AK – A 32-year-old man is in custody after allegedly fracturing another man's skull in a fight outside of the UniSea Sports Bar on Sunday night.
Joshua Trueblood was charged with second-degree assault this morning in Unalaska's District Court. Witnesses said a man matching his description punched Steven Evans outside the bar at about 8:20 p.m., and then slammed Evans's head into the pavement. The attack left Evans with a fractured skull, broken nose, broken dentures and a cut in his forehead that required stitches, according to the police report. He was taken by ambulance to the Iliuliuk Clinic.
Unalaska, AK – Two barges are scheduled to go to Nikolski later this week to alleviate the fuel shortage there as soon as weather allows. KIAL's Charles Homans has the story in Unalaska.
Unalaska, AK – The Aleutian village of Nikolski has run out of fuel, and the remote community is now without phone service or electricity. Few details were available from Nikolski today, because all phone lines to the village were down. Officials at the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association were looking into the situation, but had little information available as of this afternoon.
Fuel suppliers in Unalaska who deliver to Nikolski said that the village had been calling them about a delivery. But bad weather conditions are forecast for the next few days, and are expected to keep fuel barges from reaching the community before the end of the week.
Kodiak, AK – The search for a missing Kodiak fisherman has been suspended. Steve Esparza was a crewmember of the Ocean Challenger, which capsized Wednesday 60 miles south of Sand Point. The Coast Guard says it called off the search just before 8 p.m. last night.
The search covered approximately 1,730 square miles, and lasted 46 hours and 20 minutes, according to the Coast Guard. A C-130 and an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Kodiak searched with the cutter Munro. The search turned up no sign of Esparza. No further searches are planned for the 26-year-old fisherman.
Unalaska, AK – The fishing vessel Zenith, which broke down southwest of Saint George Island Thursday night, is on its way to Dutch Harbor. KIAL's Charles Homans has the story in Unalaska.
Unalaska, AK – A fishing vessel stranded south of Saint George Island since Thursday night will be towed to Dutch Harbor.
The Zenith, a 107-foot freezer longliner based out of Seattle, began drifting about 25 nautical miles southwest of Saint George after an engine failure. The Coast Guard cutter Jarvis arrived on scene this morning at about 3 a.m., and at first light began preparing a tow line to bring the vessel to Dutch Harbor.
Unalaska, AK – Four days after the Bristol Bay red king crab season opened, the entire crab fishing fleet is finally on its way out of Dutch Harbor. Harvesting cooperative negotiators say they reached a resolution on king crab prices with the last two seafood processing companies earlier today.
Most of the crab fleet had been refusing to fish until processors raised the advance prices they were offering. The co-ops initially asked for $3.65 a pound for king crab, a price that only two of the seven major processors, Alyeska Seafoods and Westward Seafoods, agreed to in time for the start of the season on Sunday. The other five have now bumped their prices up to similar numbers. UniSea, Inc. and Icicle Seafoods were the last to do so, after talks with the co-ops this morning.
