A 30-year tideland lease with Bering Shai Marine is up for consideration at tonight’s city council meeting.

Bill Shaishnikoff wants 2.7 acres of city-owned tideland at the back of Captains Bay, to build a ramp and mooring space. Shaishnikoff currently owns the land just above the city’s plot.

Peter Sturdivant / Courtesy of Ryan Funeral Home

Peter Sturdivant was known in Unalaska for his service on the city planning commission and his work for a property management company.

But as KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal reports, Sturdivant’s professionalism hid a taste for adventure.

Unalaska cross country runner Ross Enlow broke a school record at a meet this weekend in Palmer.

The new Unalaska boys record for 5K now stands at 17 minutes and 51 seconds, which put Enlow in 6th place.

As a team, the Unalaska boys took fifth out of 10 teams. Also scoring for the Raiders was Bryan Earnshaw, in 28th with a time of 18:56, and Michael Remolino in 34th at 19:21. He was followed by Andy Nguyen in 47th and Jerome Torres in the 54th position.

Unalaska doesn't want to close the door on new Pacific cod fisheries.

The town’s Fish and Game Advisory Committee met Saturday. They voted 5-2 to reject a proposed moratorium on new Pacific cod fisheries in state waters until the state comes up with a new long-term management plan for the resource.

The moratorium would also prevent the state from expanding current Pacific cod fisheries for the time being.

Dan Magone / Credit: Lauren Rosenthal

After 40 years in western Alaska, Dan Magone is selling his namesake diving and marine rescue business.

Magone, 61, says he’s been kicking around the idea for a long time. Then, a new tide of Coast Guard vessel safety rules came along.

"We’re having so much trouble keeping up with the regulations," Magone says.

Magone says he’s spent millions of dollars trying to get the response vessels in his fleet up to code. In the meantime, more companies started to show up in Alaska to do salvage and rescue.

Shell's Noble Discoverer drill rig

Shell will pay the Environmental Protection Agency $1.1 million in fines for allegedly violating air permits during their 2012 drilling season in Alaska.

According to a press release from the EPA, Shell has agreed to pay $710,000 for violating the Clean Air Act permit on the Noble Discoverer drill rig, and $390,000 for infractions on the Kulluk.

Shell asked the EPA to revise the air permits for both rigs last year. The oil company conducted extra tests on the vessels and discovered that they weren't built to match the emission limits that the EPA set out in their initial permits.

6.2 aftershock south of Atka and Adak / Credit: Alaska Earthquake Information Center

Hundreds of aftershocks are rattling the Aleutian Chain following a 7.0 earthquake near Adak on Friday.

As KUCB’s Ben Matheson reports, residents are ready for life to go back to normal -- but it could be months before the quakes subside.

The Alaska Arctic Policy Commission has a big mandate -- to figure out what kind of Arctic policy the state should have.

As KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal reports, they inched toward that goal during a meeting in Unalaska last week.

Courtesy of WCATWC

Residents of Adak, in the Western Aleutians, are used to frequent earthquakes. But this morning’s magnitude 7.0 quake left locals a little more rattled than usual.

Cynthia Galaktionoff was already at work at the local clinic when the earthquake hit around 7:25 a.m.

“I was talking to my Anchorage office and I felt the shaking,” says Galaktionoff. “I don’t normally feel it in this building, but I felt this one. It was really weird and it was really noisy. And he said he could hear it over the phone. And I looked at the clock and I timed it, it was like 40 seconds that we shook. It was pretty dramatic for us.”