Theo Greenly
Senior ReporterTheo Greenly is a reporter and Report for America corps member. He got his start in public radio at KCRW in Santa Monica, California. Since then, he's produced radio stories around the country, worked on podcasts at NPR, and contributed to the Los Angeles Times, Science Friday and NPR's Invisibilia. When not reporting, he’s probably looking for someone to go hiking with. Wanna go for a hike?
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Unalaska is closer than ever to building a geothermal power plant on Makushin Volcano, but the project is facing investment challenges and the city is weighing its options.
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The Genius Star was on a cross-Pacific trip to San Diego before the Coast Guard directed the ship to Unalaska. There, responders boarded the vessel and contained the fire.
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A former police chief of the remote Pribilof community of St. Paul was sentenced last week to seven years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor. The victim’s mother, Stacy Bourdokofsky, hopes this will help the family move on, but stops short of calling the sentence “justice.”
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Nearly 100 tribes and communities in western Alaska, including the Association of Village Council Presidents, signed their support for an emergency petition that would set a zero bycatch limit on chinook salmon in the pollock trawl fishery for 180 days, a move Unalaska Mayor Vince Tutiakoff Sr. said would “effectively shut down the entire pollock fishery of the Bering Sea,” and create a “dire situation” for Unalaska.
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The cargo ship that caught fire on Christmas and has moored in Unalaska Bay is moving into port
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The U.S. Department of Commerce is giving the Aleutian Islands community of King Cove $888,789 for a new boat hoist, an action it says will support the region's fishing industry.
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Alaska pollock’s “A” season opened saturday. That’s when the pollock trawlers set out into the Bering Sea to scoop up the whitefish that keeps Unalaska’s lights on.
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The Alaska Marine Highway System released its 2024 summer schedule, and the M/V Tustumena is scheduled to make one Aleutian chain run a month from May through September, totaling five port calls in Dutch Harbor.
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Last week marked a grim milestone in the Middle East: 100 days since Hamas’s surprise attack in Israel, which has led to the Israeli military campaign in Gaza — one of the bloodiest events in modern history. Unalaska local Sean Peters was in Israel during the Oct. 7 attack. On this episode of “Island Interviews,” Peters sits down to talk about his experience during the historic event.
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Akutan is set to be the next Aleutian community to get hooked up to fiber-optic broadband internet. The Alaska-based telecommunications company GCI said in a Wednesday statement they expect to finish laying cable around the island community by the end of the month.