Unalaska, AK – A Mississippi man was arrested after allegedly attacking a co-worker with a knife outside of the UniSea Sports Bar on Thursday night.

A Public Safety Department officer arrested 37-year-old Rickey Barrett and charged him with third degree assault with a weapon after he saw Barrett drawing back a knife, apparently about to stab Shawn Mueller, a co-worker of Barrett's according to the report. Barrett was handcuffed after a brief struggle.

Unalaska, AK – The Unalaska City Council voted unanimously at last night's special meeting to appoint Zoya Johnson to the council's open seat.

The move was an abrupt reversal of last week's proceedings, in which three of the four present council members voted to appoint recently unseated council member Kris Flanagan to the seat that Rocky Caldero vacated in October.

Johnson is the director of the Museum of the Aleutians and co-owns the Prime Alaska Seafoods processing plant. She said this morning that one of her main goals on the council is to bring more economic stability to Unalaska, looking at ways the city can be more fiscally responsible and diversify its revenue streams so it wouldn't be crippled by a downturn in the fishing industry.

Unalaska, AK – The Unalaska City Council will meet for a special session this evening to try once again to pick an interim replacement for Rocky Caldero's seat.

An attempt to do so last week fell apart after a partial council voted 3-1 in favor of appointing Kris Flanagan, who lost his own seat in the October election. Because three votes is not the majority of the full council, the motion ended in a stalemate.

Unalaska, AK – The Unalaska Raiders' solid run in the Region 1 Girls' Volleyball Championships ended this afternoon after the Barrow Whalers came back to beat them in a close five-game match.

After Unalaska won the first two games of the set 25-19 and 25-20, Barrow came from behind to pick up three in a row 25-23, 25-18 and 15-9 to win the match. The Raiders exited the tournament with a 2-2 record, beating Aniak and Kotzebue and losing out to Bethel and Barrow.

Unalaska, AK – The Bethel Warriors are the 2007 Region 1 Girls' Volleyball Champions after beating the Dillingham Wolverines three games to one Saturday evening in Unalaska.

Warriors captain Ashley Fairbanks said it's a moment that she and the other seniors on the team have been waiting for since junior high.

"We've been planning this since seventh grade," she said. "We've always said, 'When we're seniors, we'll have an awesome team.' And we did."

Unalaska, AK – The National Weather Service has cancelled the high winds watch that was in place for Unalaska through today. As of yesterday, forecasters were predicting winds as high as 90 miles per hour today, but today's forecast shows things calming down considerably, and gusting to 45 miles per hour at the most.

Unalaska, AK – All nine visiting teams are now present and accounted for at the Region 1 girls' volleyball championships. In today's games:

-Barrow beat Bristol Bay in three straight games, 25-6, 25-4, 25-8.

-In the day's closest contest, Nome came from behind to beat Kotzebue 3-2. Kotzebue won the first game 25-18, lost the second 25-20 and won the third 28-26, but Nome picked up the last two games 25-8 and 15-11 for the win.

Unalaska, AK – The Region 1 girls' volleyball championships will start up again at 12:30 p.m. this afternoon, with two more teams on the island and ready to play.

The tournament got a late start yesterday, with Unalaska and Aniak kicking off the first game at 12:30 p.m. Most of the games were postponed, because several teams weren't here to play them. But the teams from Bethel and Kotzebue arrived late this morning, and the tournament will resume with Nome taking on Kotzebue at 12:30 in the high school gym.

Unalaska, AK – Increased fuel and utility costs in Unalaska are prompting the City Council to consider creating a community energy conservation committee.

Although plans for the committee are tentative, the general idea is to have five to seven community members, led by council member Dick Peck, explore and report back to the council and community on ways the city and its residents could conserve energy.