Updated, 3 p.m. Monday: A fight on the F/V Alaska Juris landed one crew member in the hospital with knife wounds, and another three behind bars.

According to preliminary police reports, 47-year-old Wayland Smith and his coworker had a disagreement aboard the Alaska Juris on Thursday night. The 238-foot catcher-processer was anchored in Captains Bay to offload seafood to a tramper.

Credit: Casey Kusyk

The Arctic Hunter is no longer a salvage operation -- Dan Magone of Resolve-Magone Marine Services says the grounded crab boat is officially a wreck. His crews returned to the ship today for the first time in more than a week.

"We found that, as we suspected, the hull damage is much more severe now than after the initial grounding because of that storm that happened about a week ago," Magone says.

Massive weather events have shaken up coastal communities in Alaska and Philippines this month. Now, two state legislators are asking their constituents to support to relief efforts on both fronts. KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal reports.

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The Alaska State Troopers’ largest patrol vessel is back in service after an engine upgrade in its home port of Dutch Harbor.

The patrol vessel Stimson was out of commission for 10 days earlier this month during the overhaul.

Skipper Troy Magnusen says the patrol vessel’s engines were well past their prime.

Credit: Resolve-Magone Marine Services

Two weeks after the Arctic Hunter ran aground outside Unalaska, state officials are estimating that the boat has released up to 6,000 gallons of diesel fuel into the water.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is basing the estimate on reports from the crew of the crab boat.

The crew reported that were carrying five loaded fuel tanks. Salvagers have inspected four of them. Some tanks only contained water, or traces of fuel.

A controversial trucking law got a tune-up at last night's city council meeting.

The council approved an amendment to a rule on hydraulic fifth-wheels -- a loading tool for tractor-trailers. It’s already illegal to drive a truck with the fifth-wheel in a raised position. The amended law takes that a step further. Now, it will be illegal to drive with the fifth-wheel in anything but “the lowest possible position.”

Since July 2012, it's been illegal to operate a tractor-trailer with the fifth wheel -- a hydraulic loading tool -- in the raised position. The law was intended to help extend the structural life of paved roads around town.

But representatives from the shipping industry have said there's no clear connection between fifth-wheel position and road wear. And they're also pushing back against the amendment that's up for consideration tonight.

'Big Blue' aboard the F/V Farwest Leader. / Credit: Annie Ropeik

A big blue fire truck is on its way from Unalaska to the Pribilof island of St. George.

The truck has been ready to go for almost a year, but until now, the two communities had no way to move it.

Shell's Noble Discoverer drill rig. / KUCB

Shell Oil is taking measures to revive its troubled Arctic drilling program.

On Wednesday, the company filed an updated Arctic exploration plan with the Alaska office of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

John Callahan is a public affairs officer for BOEM. He says that even though it's based off the exploration plan Shell used in 2012, the new plan is a lot shorter.

"And what Shell submitted just focuses on the changed parts," Callahan says.