Massive weather events have shaken up coastal communities in Alaska and Philippines this month. Now, two state legislators are asking their constituents to support to relief efforts on both fronts. KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal reports.

Credit: Alaska Wildlife Troopers

The Alaska State Troopers’ largest patrol vessel is back in service after an engine upgrade in its home port of Dutch Harbor.

The patrol vessel Stimson was out of commission for 10 days earlier this month during the overhaul.

Skipper Troy Magnusen says the patrol vessel’s engines were well past their prime.

Delta sent another jet to Cold Bay to retrieve passengers. / Courtesy of Dawn Lyons

A Delta flight traveling from Tokyo to San Francisco made an emergency stop in the remote community of Cold Bay on Wednesday.

Delta’s Boeing 767 jet experienced engine problems early in the morning. A Delta spokesman wouldn’t say exactly what went wrong, but a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman told KTUU that the pilots saw a warning on their electronic engine controls.

Cold Bay’s airport is a designated diversion spot for trans-Pacific flights, so the pilots decided to land there.

A Delta flight traveling from Tokyo to San Francisco made an emergency stop in the remote community of Cold Bay Wednesday morning.

The Boeing 767 jet started to experience engine problems this morning, according to Delta spokesman Michael Thomas. Pilots were able to safely land the plane at Cold Bay’s all-weather airport.

Catherine Bland works at the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Cold Bay. She says that she heard a loud jet engine around 6 a.m, followed by a flurry of activity on the runway.

The Coast Guard airlifted a sick crew member off a fishing vessel near Cold Bay on Friday.

The medevac was for a 42-year-old crew fisherman on the cod longliner Blue Gadus. The man had reported severe chest pains.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter flew 200 miles northwest of its forward deployment in Cold Bay, to meet the Blue Gadus. An HC-130 airplane was dispatched in case a LifeFlight plane couldn’t make it through rough weather in the region to meet the helicopter.

John Szubski (left) with Pen Air crew in Cold Bay / Credit: John Szubski

In 1973, John Szubski began a trip to visit all 3,142 counties in the United States. His final two spots are Alaska, where there are no counties.  He instead counted boroughs and census areas as counties.

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.

Tuesday was Linda Snow’s last day as city manager of St. Paul. Snow announced two months ago that she would be ending her 28-year career in Alaska to move closer to family in the Lower 48.

The federal government is cutting subsidies to the telephone company that serves Adak amid concerns about how the money is being spent. As KUCB’s Stephanie Joyce reports, that leaves the future of Adak’s phone service up in the air.

Fifteen thousand dollars. That’s about how much the Federal Communications Commission used to pay Adak Telephone annually for each phone line in the community. In 2011, the total added up to $4.2 million worth of federal subsidies for less than 400 people.