It's not common practice to lock your car in Unalaska. But police say an alleged theft on Sunday is a reminder to residents to keep their property safe.

A UniSea truck was allegedly stolen from outside the airport Sunday and driven to the Russian Orthodox church. Police say 29-year-old Ishmael Guerrero left the truck outside, broke into the church and did damage to artifacts.

An interior door at the Russian Orthodox church that was allegedly broken during the incident. /Courtesy: Mike Holman, UDPS

A man is facing felony charges after allegedly stealing a truck and then breaking into Unalaska’s Russian Orthodox church on Sunday.

Ishmael Guerrero, 29, is accused of causing more than $2,000 in damage at the church, which is a national historic site. He was arraigned Monday in Unalaska District Court on three felony charges and five misdemeanors.

Police chief Jamie Sunderland says the situation began at the airport around noon on Sunday. A UniSea employee had left her company vehicle outside the building while she went inside for a few minutes. The keys were in the center console.

Eric Andersen in his elementary school classroom. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)

Eagle's View Elementary will have a familiar face in its principal’s office starting this summer.

Longtime teacher Eric Andersen has been tapped to replace outgoing elementary school principal Jeannie Schiaffo.

Schiaffo was principal for two years. District superintendent John Conwell says she’s leaving to pursue opportunities outside the state.

Conwell says they got more than 50 applications for the principal job, mostly from external candidates. But he says Andersen is already well established in town, and that made him the best choice.

Courtesy of Abner Hoage

Emergency responders were called to Captains Bay road today to put out a fire inside North Pacific Fuel's warehouse.

Fire chief Abner Hoage says warehouse employees accidentally started the blaze.

"They were doing electrical work and some of the beams caught on fire," Hoage says. "The employees quickly isolated the power and called us, so they did a great job."

Two fire engines and about a dozen public safety personnel responded to the scene. Hoage says the fire was still burning when they entered the warehouse, but firefighters kept the flames contained and put them out quickly.

City councilors got a look at the next five years of major spending at an early meeting last night.

City manager Chris Hladick walked the council through a draft of the new Capital and Major Maintenance Plan, or CMMP. It lays out extensive upgrades to the city’s water storage facilities and big equipment purchases through fiscal year 2019.

On top of that, city councilors heard pitches from the Department of Parks, Culture and Recreation. The department's considering major renovations at the aquatics center and the library.

Unalaska students wait out the drill at City Hall. (Pipa Escalante/KUCB)

For the most part, Unalaska was shielded from the devastation of the 1964 earthquake. But there’s no telling if it will be next time.

That’s why Unalaska and dozens of other communities around the state kicked off a series of emergency drills today.

Every two years, the state’s Department of Homeland Security will invent an emergency for the Alaska Shield exercise.

Communities spend a few days responding to whatever the Department throws at them.

It’s spring in Unalaska, and that means bald eagles are building new nests -- and attacking pedestrians who stray too close.

The eagles are nesting on the rocks across the street from the Iliuliuk Family & Health Services Clinic, on the S-curves of Airport Beach Road and behind the Dutch Harbor post office.

Public safety has put its familiar warning signs back out in those spots. They feature a stencil of a person being swooped upon by one of the birds. And that's exactly what happened to city recreation manager Ben Bolock last weekend.

An ammonia leak cleared out part of the UniSea complex late Saturday night.

Deputy police chief Mike Holman says a cracked valve appears to have caused the leak at the G2 plant, shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday morning.

He says UniSea workers were being evacuated from the building by the time public safety officers in the area noticed what was going on. Those officers and others helped evacuate the rest of the workers and had others shelter in place.

A member of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment in Unalaska has passed away in Anchorage.

Petty Officer Michal Marciniak died at Alaska Regional Hospital Tuesday morning while receiving treatment for a serious illness.

Marciniak had fallen ill Monday morning and was medevacked to Cold Bay on a Coast Guard helicopter. A commercial medevac brought him to Alaska Regional’s emergency room in critical condition.