The city’s landfill expansion project is back out to bid after remnants of explosives at the site stopped work earlier this year.

Bids are due Tuesday afternoon for the project, which involves building two new cells at the landfill.

Northern Alaska Contractors was originally hired for the job this past spring, at a price of about $3.9 million. But the company put the project on hold after workers found dynamite wrappers in rocks that had been trucked into the site.

Adak Island (Creative Commons)

State troopers believe that a set of human remains found on Adak this month are those of a long-lost camper.

"Based on a wallet with some ID that was found near the remains, we believe that this is Samuel Arrington, who was 57 at the time of disappearance," says trooper spokesperson Beth Ipsen.

Arrington went missing in July 2008 during a camping trip at Lake Betty. The lake is about a mile from the spot where two U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees stumbled on the human remains in mid-June. 

Alaska Sen. Mark Begich used a Senate subcommittee hearing on airport safety this week to press for a new piece of equipment at the runway in Unalaska.

The subcommittee on aviation met Wednesday to talk about the NextGen Air Traffic System. It’s a new satellite surveillance system that the Federal Aviation Administration hopes to install in place of older aircraft radar.

FAA deputy administrator Michael Whitaker was on hand to answer the subcommittee’s questions. When it was Begich’s turn to speak, he brought up his recent visit to Unalaska.

This fall, Alaska will get a new representative on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.

Simon Kinneen has been appointed to the committee, which is made up of industry stakeholders and experts from Washington State and Alaska.

The eaglet gets a check-up at Bird TLC in Anchorage. /Courtesy: Bird TLC

A lost baby eagle from Unalaska is making a new start in Anchorage. The eaglet will get a second chance at life in the wild.

Bald eagles are everywhere in Unalaska -- but it’s not often you see a fuzzy little eaglet sitting on the side of the road.

That’s exactly what happened on Sunday, when a police officer found an eaglet on Captain's Bay Road. It’s in an industrial part of town, and the eaglet was in the way of passing cars.

Ash clouds drift over Cold Bay on June 3, 2014, at the peak of Pavlof's recent eruption. /Credit: Robert Stacy

Pavlof Volcano’s latest eruption appears to be subsiding.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory has downgraded Pavlof to the lowest alert level.

Volcanologist Tina Neal says the volcano isn't producing new lava flows. And it hasn't released much ash since early this month.

"Based on that, and the fact that we're not seeing ongoing strong seismicity, we think the eruption is over," Neal says.

Construction is ramping up on the Summer Bay Bridge, but a plan for diverting traffic around the popular recreation site is still in progress.

City officials met with Northern Alaska Contractors on Tuesday -- just one day after work crews tried to close off Summer Bay Road at the landfill.

"Well, there was enough space around the edges of the barricades that the public just drove right around it," says public works director Tom Cohenour.

Unalaska's Bureau of Indian Affairs hospital was bombed by the Japanese during World War II. /Courtesy: National Library of Medicine

Tribal and federal officials say the plan to build a regional hospital for the Southwest in Unalaska is closer than ever to reality.

For most locals, the idea of a full-size hospital in Unalaska has always been little more than a pipe dream.

But not for Tom Robinson of the Qawalangin Tribe. He’s been trying to make the hospital happen for more than five years.

The earthquake, shown by the red icon, in the center of the advisory area, shown in yellow, around 4 p.m. Monday. /Image via NOAA

Update, 4 p.m. Monday: The tsunami advisory in Unalaska has ended, after a powerful underwater earthquake in the Western Aleutians triggered tsunami alerts for parts of the Aleutian Islands Monday afternoon.

No damages were reported after the magnitude 8.0 quake, recorded just before 1 p.m. on Monday. It happened about 30 miles northwest of Amchitka, about 60 miles underwater.

The earthquake generated a tsunami warning from Attu to Nikolski and in the Pribilof Islands for about two hours Monday. It was then downgraded to an advisory. Unalaska was also under an advisory for part of Monday afternoon.