Cold Bay News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew forward deployed in Cold Bay medevaced a 30-year-old crewman with a reported eye injury from the 124-foot fishing vessel Clipper Surprise more than 50 miles north of Dutch Harbor Monday.

Calm seas and unseasonably warm weather greeted Bering Sea crab fishermen as they embarked on the 2009-10 red king crab season in search of a harvest quota of 16.9 million pounds of king crab.

The Coast Guard, in partnership with Alaska Department of Fish and Game personnel, are deploying to safeguard the crab fleet departing today for the start of the 2009 - 2010 crabbing season in the Bearing Sea.

The Minnesota Zoo has lofty ambitions during a down economy. Watch a computer animated fly through of what they're proposing and read Sunday's Star Tribune for all the details.

TelAlaska Cellular has added wireless telephone service to Cold Bay, Fort Yukon and King Cove for the first time, the company said.

Global warming is one of the most frightening environmental threats that the United States and other countries are greatly concerned over.

An Alaska company is extending cell phone service to the Arctic boroughs. Dan Boyette, vice president of rural consumer service at GCI, says the expansion is part of the company's plan to offer service in every community in the state within two years.

The Coast Guard is searching for two people aboard a disabled 15-foot skiff near Amatignak Island roughly 130 miles southwest of Adak in the Aleutian Islands Sunday.

Lately, however, the borough's relationship with MMS has become strained, raising the possibility that a friend might turn against the controversial Lease Sale 214.

A moderate earthquake followed by an aftershock shook up the Alaska Peninsula region Saturday.

Seven fishermen who lost their lives at sea were honored Sunday, May 3, at the Seattle Fishermen's Memorial Service.