Alaska State News

Residents are paying $1,300 one-way to fly to Anchorage after the Bering Sea island community lost its carrier in August.

Chena Power claims that Ounalashka Corp. pushed them out of the joint venture through bad faith maneuvering.

As city officials were discussing a budget amendment at Tuesday night’s regular council meeting, hate symbols and racial slurs began appearing on the shared screen over Zoom.

The M/V Tustumena won’t be making its port call in Unalaska this weekend.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ranks Dutch Harbor as the nation’s top port by volume. But, until recently, a shallow bar sat at the Iliuliuk Bay entrance, limiting access to the city’s bustling ports.

The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to a stranded sailing vessel about 23 miles south of Unalaska.

The Alaska Emergency Operations Center mistakenly sent an evacuation order to Unalaskans after a mid-July earthquake due to confusion over geography, a state emergency official said July 28.

A tsunami advisory was lifted for the Aleutians and the Pribilof Islands Wednesday morning, after one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula at about 3:25 p.m. Alaska time.

Unalaska’s city manager fired the island’s director of ports and harbors Wednesday, despite threats of a forthcoming lawsuit.

Earlier this month, Unalaska City Manager Bil Homka presented the island’s ports director with a notice of termination, which was the topic of a special City Council meeting Friday afternoon.