Unalaska News

According to a recent study commissioned by the state, Unalaska is the second most expensive place to live in Alaska, right behind Kotzebue.

The Times of Munster, Ind: Unalaska Mayor Shirley Marquardt - frequently seen on the popular Discovery Channel TV series "Deadliest Catch" - had her wallet stolen on a Chicago-bound train in northern Indiana, police reported.

An Alaskan mayor was given less than a warm welcome as she and her family traveled the rails in Northwest Indiana over the weekend.

Two men spent 52 hours drifting in the Bering Sea before being rescued by the Coast Guard on Sunday evening.

A couple of days ago, I located the "long lost" Honolulu Observatory GISS weather station on the Island of Oahu with just a couple of hours of digging.

Unalaska's long-awaited new boat harbor is under construction this summer, along with a new diesel electricity generating plant and other projects in the Aleutian Islands community.

The Navy-owned research vessel Knorr passed through Unalaska last week hosting a team of scientists from the BEST/BSIERP Bering Sea Ecosystem research project.

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Senator Mark Begich A is calling for the creation of a new government position: Ambassador for the Arctic.

The StoryCorps project records conversations between ordinary people about their lives.

Each year Unalaskans participate in the community clean-up week. But some take the project to a deeper level.

The owners and operators of a freighter that sank in the Aleutian Islands five years ago have agreed to pay the state of Alaska nearly $850,000 to settle oil spill, wreck removal and lost fish tax claims, state officials said.

The state of Alaska and the owners and operators of the Selendang Ayu have reached a settlement of nearly $850,000 over the 2004 shipwreck in the Aleutian Islands.

Unalaskans hail from around the globe the Philippines, Sudan, Russia, and beyond.

The City of Unalaska is getting less money than it hoped for in this year's state budget, despite the city staff's hope for $5 million to go toward the powerhouse and potentially another generator.

The Port of Dutch Harbor is facing revenue shortfalls that could negatively impact the overall city budget.

The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council has taken action to limit Chinook bycatch by the pollock fleet in the Bering Sea.

We all want to be healthier, and one of the best ways to do that is to change our eating habitats.

Twenty years ago this spring the Exxon Valdez strayed from her course and ran hard aground in Prince William Sound.

Redoubt's eruption captured by a webcam on March 23,2009. Image courtesy of AVO/USGS. Redoubt may not be in the Aleutians, but the ash from this week's eruptions is still causing cancelled flights between Unalaska and Anchorage.