Unalaska, AK – The dead humpback whale that spent the past three days offshore from Little South America on Amaknak Island has been towed out to sea. Samples and photographs were taken of the dead marine mammal yesterday, three days after it was first found floating in Broad Bay, and it was sunk at sea earlier today.

Unalaska, AK – Joanna Aldridge has announced that she's withdrawing from the race for her former City Council seat.

Aldridge was not available for comment today, although she sent out a brief written statement citing "family and work obligations" in the decision. She had filed last month to run again for Council Seat C, from which she had stepped down in February, citing family reasons. That put her in competition with current council member Roger Rowland, who had been appointed to fill her seat for the remainder of her term. Valerie Lemas is also running for the seat.

Unalaska, AK – Nearly three years after the wreck of the Selendang Ayu, the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska is arguing that it should be compensated for cultural damage inflicted by the shipwreck. In Unalaska, KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Unalaska, AK – On Sunday, a dead humpback whale weighing between 35 and 45 tons washed up in Unalaska Bay. The cause of death was unclear, and the whale was brought closer to town in the hopes that an out-of-town scientist would be able to fly in to perform a necropsy. But as the massive animal continues to decompose, those plans have been set aside. In Unalaska, KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Unalaska, AK – A forty foot long dead humpback whale currently can be seen--and smelled--just off the back side of Little South America on Amaknak Island, where it was towed from the other side of Unalaska Bay Sunday evening.

"It's a full-sized female, so it's about as big as they get," said marine biologist Reid Brewer, with the local University of Alaska Fairbanks extension office. "From the waterline it doesn't look very large, but it's kind of like an iceberg--if you see one of these things floating, only about a third of it is above water and the other two-thirds is below."

Unalaska, AK – On Wednesday, immigrants in Unalaska had the first opportunity in several years to gain US citizenship on the island in a naturalization ceremony at the City Hall. KIAL's Charles Homans reports.

Amchitka Island, AK – In 1971, a group of Canadian environmental and peace activists attempted to sail to Alaska's Amchitka Island, in protest of the American government's plans to conduct the largest underground nuclear test in North America on the island. They failed to get anywhere near the island before the bomb was set off, but the mission did lead to the creation of the international environmental group Greenpeace. This week, 36 years after the organization's maiden voyage, a Greenpeace ship reached Amchitka for the first time, and visited the site of the nuclear test. KIAL's Charles Homans reports from aboard the vessel Esperanza, anchored at Amchitka.

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Unalaska, AK – Alaska pollock is the biggest fishery in the world, and one of the few that's considered sustainable. But as the waters of the Bering Sea warm, the local ecosystem is changing. Pollock are moving farther north, and fishermen are growing concerned. KIAL's Charles Homans recently visited the fishing grounds northwest of the Pribilof Islands with the crew of the Starlite, a Dutch Harbor-based pollock boat, and brings us this report.