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The M/V Tustumena won’t be making its port call in Unalaska this weekend.
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The Alaska Marine Highway’s director says a requirement to buy American-made parts has been a major stumbling block.
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Roughly two dozen participants, including officials with the U.S. Coast Guard and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, gathered in Unalaska in late July for an oil spill response training.
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It started with the goal of teaching kids traditions their elders feared would disappear. Today, some of those kids are becoming instructors.
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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.
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Alaska communities in the Aleutians and Pribilofs were under a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka at about 3:25 p.m. Alaska time. But it was lifted around 10:25 a.m. Wednesday.
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Ravn Alaska says they will stop serving the Pribilof community at the end of July.
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Residents say the island’s only store is now stocked with milk, eggs and bread.
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No major waves were reported in any community.
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The Unalaska Department of Public Safety has lifted a tsunami warning for Unalaska. The island is no longer at risk of a tsunami, and residents can return to lower ground.
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Meanwhile, Fish and Game is putting more restrictions on the fishery.
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The name “Nazi Creek” will no longer be used for federal databases or maps. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted unanimously to rename Alaska’s Nazi Creek to “Kaxchim Chiĝanaa.” In English, the name can be translated to “creek or river belonging to Kangchix̂ or gizzard island” or “gizzard creek,” and reflects the Unangax̂ name for the island of Little Kiska, which sits about 240 miles east of Attu, in the Western Aleutians.