Laurelin Kruse
ReporterLaurelin Kruse is a writer and radio producer from rural Colorado. She has a BA in American Studies from Yale, and she learned radio at the Transom Story Workshop in Massachusetts, where she reported stories for the local public radio station. Kruse is excited to spend the summer roaming the tundra and doing stories for the Unalaska community.
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One person died and three others were injured in a car accident Thursday evening after a vehicle rolled off the roadway on Unalaska’s Summer Bay Road.
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In a historically late push, almost 3,000 sockeye salmon came through the weir at McLees Lake on Sunday. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game says the salmon run in Unalaska is now at a sustainable level and fishing restrictions have been lifted.
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Unalaska may be getting its first fishermen’s memorial sometime next year. Across the island plaques and statues commemorate the Aleutians’ World War II history, but there’s nothing to honor the legacy of fishermen lost at sea.Local sculpture artist Karel Machálek wants to change that.
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A local artist is working to erect a fishing memorial in Unalaska; subsistence fishermen plead with the state to restrict salmon fishing near the Alaska Peninsula; and Unalaska’s Summer Artisan Market is this Saturday.
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Unalaska has officially kicked off its first cruise ship season after two years of pandemic-related cancellations. The 459-foot Roald Amundsen docked in Dutch Harbor on Monday with about 350 passengers aboard.
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The annual Ballyhoo Mountain Run was this Saturday. Over 20 runners raced up and down the grueling 1,600 foot peak in the blustery wind.
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Unalaska kicked off its first cruise ship season in two and a half years with a visit from the Roald Amundsen on Monday; Results are in from the annual Ballyhoo Mountain Run; and two boaters returned safely to Unalaska Sunday morning after their skiff was reported missing overnight.
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The U.S. Coast Guard had an unusual wildlife spotting off the coast of Unalaska last month: the body of a beaked whale.The whale was found floating near Makushin Bay.
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There was a rare whale sighting near Makushin Bay last month; in the wake of Chum salmon crashes in Western Alaska, subsistence fishermen have been pleading with the state to restrict salmon fishing near the Alaska Peninsula; and the annual Ballyhoo Run is this Saturday in Unalaska.
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How cold is the water in the Bering Sea? That’s what a group of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants to know. NOAA is currently out in the Aleutian Islands running their annual Eastern Bering Sea Bottom Trawl Survey. They've been running annual surveys since the 1970s, mainly to collect data on the distribution and abundance of bottom-dwelling species like crab and groundfish. But this year they’re paying special attention to the cold pool—a section of bottom water that stays cold through the summer. It affects everything from when fish spawn to what part of the ocean they live in.