Unalaska, AK – There was no clear leader in the House District 37 race as polls closed in Unalaska at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Among candidates on the ballot, Democrat Bryce Edgmon leads Republican Ron Bowers 220 to 126 in the preliminary results for the Aleutians #2 precinct. But 214 write-in votes were cast, most of them presumably for incumbent Carl Moses, who mounted a write-in campaign after losing the Democratic primary to Edgmon. With about 45 absentee ballots cast in the district, as well as 26 question ballots and 7 personal representative ballots, either candidate could easily emerge as the local victor.

Unalaska, AK – Today is Election Day in Unalaska and elsewhere, and turnout here has been average so far, according to City Clerk Debra Mack. As of 5 p.m. 407 people had voted at Unalaska's polling place in City Hall. Another 74 absentee, question and personal representative ballots had also been cast.

In addition to statewide races and ballot measures, Unalaska voters will choose between Democrat Bryce Edgmon, Republican Ron Bowers and incumbent and write-in candidate Carl Moses for House District 37's representative seat, and between Democratic incumbent Lyman Hoffman and Republican challenger Norman Ayagalria for the district's state Senate seat.

Unalaska, AK – The state Division of Elections has questioned four employers in Unalaska following a complaint alleging that they were trying to influence their employees to vote for Carl Moses.

Division director Whitney Brewster faxed a letter to representatives of Alyeska Seafoods, Offshore Systems Inc., UniSea Inc. and Westward Seafoods last night. One of the letters viewed by KIAL states that the division "received a report that management staff of your plant have been providing sample ballots to plant employees, on-site at the plant, and instructing the employees to write-in the name of a particular candidate and vote for that candidate at the upcoming general election."

Unalaska, AK – The state Division of Elections is questioning four employers in Unalaska following a complaint alleging that they were trying to influence their employees to vote for Carl Moses.

Division director Whitney Brewster faxed a letter to representatives of Alyeska Seafoods, Offshore Systems Inc., UniSea Inc. and Westward Seafoods last night. The letter states that the division "received a report that management staff of your plant have been providing sample ballots to plant employees, on-site at the plant, and instructing the employees to write-in the name of a particular candidate and vote for that candidate at the upcoming general election." Brewster identified the candidate in question as Carl Moses.

Unalaska, AK – Two major scientific foundations are joining forces to look at the shifting dynamics in the Bering Sea ecosystem.

New research initiatives by the National Science Foundation and the North Pacific Research Board will focus on the eastern Bering Sea shelf, north of the Aleutian Islands. The research will take a big-picture approach to the region's ecosystem, from tiny plankton to fish to the human communities that depend on them.

Unalaska, AK – The first eastern area Bering Sea tanner crab season in a decade hasn't been a promising one so far.

The first deliveries in the fishery, which opened on October 15, have been full of what's known as old shell crab, according to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. Although the department doesn't have hard numbers yet, area management biologist Forrest Bowers says that more than half of the crabs in some deliveries have been old shell.

Unalaska, AK – A fuel shipment reached the village of Nikolski on Sunday, and the community has restored electricity and phone service after a week without either.

Tribal administrator Tanya Kyle said that the eight barrels of fuel that were flown in on Thursday were enough to take care of the village's basic needs until the barge from Delta Western Fuels arrived on Sunday with about 46,000 gallons onboard. That's enough to supply the village for about a year.

Unalaska, AK – The jack-o'-lantern is a staple of Halloween decoration in most of the United States. But many kids growing up in the remote villages of the Aleutian Islands and the Alaska Peninsula had never seen one in the flesh until eight years ago. That was when the crew of the ferry Tustumena began using its final trip of the year, in early October, to bring Halloween cheer to the villages between Kodiak and Dutch Harbor.

Unalaska, AK – A month after Bryce Edgmon defeated Carl Moses in the House District 37 Democratic primary race, another election in the Aleutian Islands ended in a coin toss Friday. But this one was even stranger, because the winning candidate died four weeks ago. KIAL's Charles Homans has the story.