Doanh Thi Tran shows off her previous pageant crowns in her Unalaska home. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)
On Friday, 19 young women competed to represent Alaska in the next Miss America pageant -- among them, Unalaska resident Doanh Thi Tran. The Miss Alaska pageant usually gets most entries from urban places. That made Tran an exception.
She didn't advance to Miss America, but she did take home the Miss Congeniality and People's Choice awards.
KUCB's Annie Ropeik spoke to Tran last month as she was getting ready for the pageant. As she reports, Tran wanted to show off a different side of the last frontier.
Unalaska police may have reached a turning point in a long investigation into drug sales. Two people are in custody after a stockpile was discovered at the home -- and business -- they both share.
Unalaska’s police chief, Jamie Sunderland, can’t remember a bigger bust.
"Easily over a half a million dollars worth of drugs found so far," Sunderland said Thursday afternoon. "And the search is continuing."
City council will meet at noon today to vote on a $923,000 contract with Northern Alaska Contractors.
According to a resolution to approve the contract, Northern Alaska was the lowest of three responsive bidders to replace World War II-era storm drainage on Delta Way and update Unalaska’s sewer main -- raising manholes, and installing several hundred feet of wider iron pipe.
Designs for the new Bobby Storrs Small Boat Harbor are more than halfway done. But it wasn't too late for Unalaska’s city councilors to offer input on the harbor's new configuration this week.
Councilors have previously told PND Engineers that they want the designs to be geared toward Unalaska’s residential small boat fleet. After looking at the latest plans, some councilors asked if it would be possible to adjust the A and B floats to make more space for large commercial vessels.
The new year will likely bring new fisheries to the western Aleutian Islands, now that the NMFS has issued its final report on the way commercial fishing affects an endangered population of Steller sea lions.
