The Ounalashka Corporation’s top executive will step down next summer.

Rick Miller told his board of directors that he won’t renew his contract when it ends in June 2015. 

A man accused of dealing a fatal blow during a brief fight outside the Harbor View Bar this spring has reached a deal with prosecutors.

Anthony Pouesi, 28, of Shelton, Wash., has pleaded guilty to a reduced murder charge in the death of 44-year-old Marlo Adams, of Yakima, Wash.

Pouesi won't be sentenced until 2015. But he's agreed to serve between one and three years in jail for negligent homicide. That's far less than the 20-year maximum sentence he was facing for his original felony manslaughter charge.

The Ounalashka Corporation will lease the tidelands, highlighted at left, for 50 years. (City of Unalaska)

City council voted to lease about three acres of tidelands near the Carl E. Moses Boat Harbor to the Ounalashka Corporation Tuesday night, over some concerns about the impacts of future developments.

The tidelands are on the back side of Little South America, around the point from the city harbor. OC wants to use them along with the uplands they already own to build a dock, barge loading facility and industrial complex.

Unalaska’s biggest processing plant has agreed to pay a $142,000 fine for allegedly lagging on safety procedures meant to prevent chemical spills.

UniSea keeps large quantities of ammonia on hand for refrigerating fish, plus chlorine for treating its water supply. The Clean Air Act requires facilities to maintain a risk management program for those chemicals.

(Credit: David Gibson)

Two Raiders cross country teams are on their way to states this weekend after big wins at their Region 1-South meet in Bristol Bay.

Junior Ross Enlow won the boys’ race for the second year in a row at regionals last weekend. And senior Christian Escalante came in second in the girls’ race.

The Raiders took the best overall boys’ and girls’ scores at the meet, beating out Dillingham and sending Unalaska's teams to the state meet for the first time in several years. 

Coach David Gibson says this is the biggest, most competitive team he’s had in his three years coaching.

City council will take another shot at approving new, revised rules for construction camps and subdivisions at their meeting tonight.

Council asked the planning department to overhaul the proposed zoning changes back in July. Now, they’ll consider them in three separate ordinances.

One covers the areas council hasn’t had major concerns about. It includes new guidelines for planned unit developments, building separations and application deadlines.

Study facilitator Chris Beck looks over audience members' votes on what kind of seasonality changes they're seeing in Unalaska. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)

Scientists know that the climate in the Aleutian Islands is changing. But they’re making observations from a distance -- while on the ground, the story is sometimes very different.

That’s what a team of researchers found earlier this month in Unalaska, when they talked to locals about the climate change they’re seeing in their own back yards.

About 40 people packed into Unalaska’s Museum of the Aleutians to answer a simple question: What abnormal changes have they seen in their local environment?

Community health centers in the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands will get at least $600,000 in federal grant money for new services this year.

The grants are aimed in part at helping new patients who enrolled in health plans under the Affordable Care Act.

But there aren’t many of those in the Aleutian Islands. Instead, providers will use the money for the patients they already have.

Two Aleutian communities are going without local law enforcement after their village public safety officers resigned.

Akutan's officer has stepped down for personal reasons. And False Pass lost its VPSO two months ago, when the officer decided to move closer to his family on the East Coast.

Both of those officers were employed by the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, or APIA. They get funding from the state of Alaska to put officers in five communities.