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WEBAndy Lusk. , September 17, 2024. In this episode of “Island Interviews,” new High School Principal Carly Morris, sixth-grade teacher Kyle Chapman and Student Support Services Representative Heidi Lucking dig into expectations for the year ahead. Newly-minted Unalaskans Morris and Chapman detail what surprised them about the island, too.
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WEBSep 27, 2024 · Angela 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 …
The Aleutians have a rat problem. Scientists are trying to solve it
WEBMar 10, 2022 · Scientists are trying to solve it. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife vehicle on Adak Island promoting rat eradication. For millions of years, birds lived nearly predator free in the Aleutian Islands. The volcanic archipelago stretches westward for 1,200 miles from the Alaska Peninsula, dotting a border between the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.
Bering Sea Island's Gas Shortage Forces Crabbers South To Refuel …
WEBMar 18, 2021 · Bering Sea Island's Gas Shortage Forces Crabbers South To Refuel, Disrupting Their Fishing. The COVID-19 pandemic has already disrupted Alaska's winter Bering Sea fishing seasons, closing plants and adding quarantine-related complications for crews. Now, some boats are contending with a shortage of fuel at a …
Sand Point Loses Half Of Police Force And Head Of Public Works
WEBJul 2, 2020 · KSDP. Nearly half of Sand Point's police force is leaving the department, according to city officials. The 950-person island community — located about 550 miles southwest of Anchorage in the eastern portion of the Aleutian Chain — has a five-person police department that rotates into the community on a two week on, two week off basis.
Army Corps of Engineers to complete Unalaska Valley cleanup
WEBJul 17, 2023 · The Army Corps of Engineers is cleaning up diesel-contaminated soil in Unalaska, nearing completion of the last remaining locations of their decades-long cleanup efforts in the Unalaska Valley. They contracted with the recently-formed OC Environmental Services, an environmental firm owned and operated by Unalaska’s Native corporation, to conduct the field cleanup, and say the cleanup should ...
Driver Pleads 'Not Guilty' In Deaths Of Two Unalaska Teens Who
WEBJun 12, 2020 · Bail has been set at $50,000 for 19-year-old Dustin Ruckman, the Unalaska teenager who was behind the wheel in last year's fatal car crash off Mount Ballyhoo.. The court is not requiring bail be posted, but that he be liable for the amount should he miss a court appearance.
KUCB To Premiere Documentary On Lost Villages Project
WEBJun 4, 2019 · After a decade of collecting footage and interviews, KUCB will premiere its new documentary on June 13. The film is called "Tanadgusim Adan Chiilulix: Revisiting the Lost Villages of the Aleutian Islands." It's about a project that brought Unangax̂ survivors of World War II back to the communities they were forced to leave during the war ...
Three Bears, Alaska Ship Supply deal closes Friday | KUCB
WEBNov 29, 2023 · Andy Lusk. /. KUCB. Alaska Ship Supply has been in Dutch Harbor since the 1980s. After months of talks, a purchase agreement between Three Bears Alaska and Alaska Ship Supply is set to close Friday. Larry Soriano, president of Western Pioneer — which owns Alaska Ship Supply — confirmed the …
For years, scientists couldn’t explain the decline in these ... - KUCB
WEBSep 22, 2021 · Fur seals are an essential subsistence food for the Unangax̂ communities in the Bering Sea’s Pribilof Islands. But for years, scientists have been unable to explain why the seals’ populations have been falling. Now, a new peer-reviewed study points its finger at an industry that’s long been suspected, but never definitively linked with the population declines: Alaska’s huge commercial ...