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The Unalaska City Council will interview permanent city manager candidates next weekend. Three applicants have been selected to advance to the first round of interviews, according to a Tuesday press release from the city.

Unalaska City Council members approved several major spending items at their Tuesday meeting, but warned that the city is facing long-term budget challenges. The City Council unanimously approved school funding, community support grants and a capital plan with more than $20 million worth of projects.

Come next school year, Unalaska elementary students will likely be swinging from shiny new monkey bars.

Unalaska city officials will travel to the nation’s capital next month to speak with legislators about the island’s top priorities, and this year, they’ve named a years-long paving project as the city’s primary concern.

The long-anticipated decision over pollock trawlers’ chum bycatch has seafood towns like Unalaska worried.

Unalaska’s Department of Motor Vehicles office has been closed for more than two months, with no reopening date in sight.

On Tuesday night, the Unalaska City Council voted unanimously to appoint former Unalaska Fire Chief Abner Hoage as the new interim city manager.

After more than a years-long discussion and an organized petition, the City of Unalaska recently updated the local pet control ordinance. The Unalaska Department of Public Safety implemented a zone where dogs are required to be leashed, covering most of the residential and commercial areas within city limits. But some organizers of the petition now say their efforts to change city code and harshen leash laws may have backfired.

One school board seat is headed to a runoff after candidates tied with 114 votes each in Tuesday's election.

With 51 absentee and questioned ballots still uncounted, just one of Unalaska's municipal election races is too close to officially call.