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WEBAngela Denning / CoastAlaska. , September 23, 2024. A big portion – $106.4 million – will go towards replacing the 60-year-old Tustumena, seen here in Sand Point in June 2024, that serves the Aleutian Islands. The price tag for the project, called TRV for Tustumena Replacement Vessel, is over $315 million. The rest of the cost will come ...
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WEBUnalaska City Council weighs proposed small boat harbor overhaul. Andy Lusk. , September 24, 2024. Early plans are coming together to revamp the Robert Storrs Small Boat Harbor in Unalaska. The City Council reviewed a new design plan for some of the floats located behind the UniSea processing plants at their Sept. 10 regular meeting.
Three Volcanoes Erupt Across The Aleutians - KUCB
WEBAug 19, 2021 · Three volcanoes are currently erupting across the Aleutian Range — Great Sitkin and Semisopochnoi in the Aleutian Islands, and Pavlof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula. Hannah Dietterich, a research geophysicist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory, said three simultaneous eruptions may …
Unalaska summer softball season closes out with league …
WEBAug 31, 2024 · It’s the first time Unalaska has had a softball league since before the COVID-19 pandemic. So far this season, players pitched, swung, stole and slid their way through a total of 10 games. Games are held back-to-back every Sunday in August, with finals at the start of September. Fire Chief Ben Knowles organized the new league.
Unalaskan takes over local operations of Ounalashka Corp. as CEO …
WEBNov 4, 2021 · The Ounalashka Corp. announced last month that its CEO, Chris Salts, will be leaving the island and Denise Rankin will take on a local leadership role. “She's going to be the go-to person in Unalaska,” Salts said. “Denise has a really extensive background in community boards, school board, the clinic and the tribe — she was the ...
Dutch Harbor Cannabis Company opening delayed until fall
WEBMay 15, 2024 · Jana Weltzin is an attorney representing Dutch Harbor Cannabis Company. She told KUCB in an emailed statement that weather-related delays made winter construction a challenge. Weltzin noted that construction is set to begin soon and should finish by August. The dispensary will be located on a 20,222 square foot lot on East Broadway near Loop Road.
Tsunami warning not in effect for Unalaska following magnitude-7 …
WEBJul 15, 2023 · The National Weather Service has issued a tsunami warning for Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula areas following an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 that struck 55 miles SW of Sand Point at 10:48 p.m. Unalaska is NOT currently under a watch or warning. Unalaska is approximately 80 miles southwest of the advisory zone ...
Unalaska Superintendent Robbie Swint Jr. resigns | KUCB
WEBSep 22, 2022 · The Unalaska City School District says Superintendent Robbie Swint Jr. committed no wrongdoing following a complaint filed by a former elementary school principal who departed abruptly after a few months on the job.That comes after the district released details to the public Tuesday about its investigation into an internal complaint made by former principal LaVettra Clayton, who left the ...
Dutch Harbor Remains Nation's Top Port In Terms Of Volume For …
WEBMay 26, 2021 · KUCB. Dutch Harbor has been named the nation's top fishing port in terms of volume of seafood landed for the 23rd consecutive year. And the Aleutians East Borough — which includes Akutan, False Pass, Sand Point and King Cove — rose from third to second place. That's according to an annual report from …
The Case of The Vanishing Seals: An Alaskan Island Mystery
WEBFeb 29, 2016 · Chapter 1. An Amazing Disaster. From a viewing blind in the middle of a seal rookery on Alaska's remote Pribilof Islands, it can be hard to fathom this place once holding vastly more life than it does now. Untold thousands of chubby brown bodies drape over boulders and sprawl across the tundra into the distance: northern fur seals.