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WEBAndy Lusk. , September 17, 2024. In this episode of “Island Interviews,” new High School Principal Carly Morris, sixth-grade teacher Kyle Chapman and Student Support Services Representative Heidi Lucking dig into expectations for the year ahead. Newly-minted Unalaskans Morris and Chapman detail what surprised them about the island, too.
APIA To Provide New Unalaska Head Start Building And Add
WEBMar 30, 2021 · The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association (APIA) is bringing a new Head Start facility to Unalaska. The new facility will replace the island’s existing Head Start building. Currently, the Head Start building can only hold about 10 students, aged three to five, due to social distancing mandates meant to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Local News - KUCB
WEBSep 16, 2024 · The National Weather Service has issued a special weather statement for the Eastern Aleutians and Alaska Peninsula. According to the organization, small amounts of ashfall are possible in Unalaska, Nikolski, Sand Point and Cold Bay through Monday afternoon. The KUCB Newsroom provides newscasts Monday through Thursday at noon and 5 PM on KUCB Radio.
The Case of The Vanishing Seals: An Alaskan Island Mystery
WEBFeb 29, 2016 · Chapter 1. An Amazing Disaster. From a viewing blind in the middle of a seal rookery on Alaska's remote Pribilof Islands, it can be hard to fathom this place once holding vastly more life than it does now. Untold thousands of chubby brown bodies drape over boulders and sprawl across the tundra into the distance: northern fur seals.
Fishermen's memorial planned for Unalaska - KUCB
WEBJul 25, 2022 · Unalaska may be getting its first fishermen’s memorial sometime next year. Across the island plaques and statues commemorate the Aleutians’ World War II history, but there’s nothing to honor the legacy of fishermen lost at sea. Local sculpture artist Karel Machálek wants to change that. He’s currently at work on a life-sized fishermen ...
Dutch Harbor Remains Nation's Top Port In Terms Of Volume For …
WEBMay 26, 2021 · KUCB. Dutch Harbor has been named the nation's top fishing port in terms of volume of seafood landed for the 23rd consecutive year. And the Aleutians East Borough — which includes Akutan, False Pass, Sand Point and King Cove — rose from third to second place. That's according to an annual report from …
NTSB: The F/V Destination Sank After Accumulating Ice In Heavy
WEBJul 16, 2018 · A crab boat that sank in the Bering Sea last winter likely capsized after it became coated in hundreds of thousands of pounds of ice. That's the conclusion of a report released last week by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). As KUCB's Laura Kraegel reports, the findings shed new light on the loss of the fishing vessel Destination ...
Longshore union reaches tentative bargaining agreement - KUCB
WEBJun 26, 2023 · Hope McKenney. /. KUCB. Approximately 140 ILWU members work in the International Port of Dutch Harbor, with around 200 more workers around Alaska. The union representing longshore workers in Dutch Harbor — as well as the rest of the state — reached a tentative bargaining agreement Friday evening, following nearly 18 months of …
Bering Sea Dungeness crab season starts in May, officials ... - KUCB
WEBApr 23, 2024 · The commercial season for Dungeness crab in the North Peninsula District opens May 1, and officials say this year’s harvest trajectory looks good. The individual pot limit for the area this year is 500 per vessel. Ethan Nichols is the groundfish and shellfish area management biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Dutch Harbor.
Fishing vessel runs aground in Unalaska, pulled free by F/V Amatuli
WEBFeb 12, 2022 · A fishing vessel ran aground in Unalaska Saturday morning. It was en route to offload crab at local processing plant Westward Seafoods. The 92-foot Kevleen K – homeported in Seattle – hit rocks near Little South America just before 10 a.m., according to port officials. The boat was pulled off the rocks by the F/V Amatuli about an hour later.