KUCB - Unalaska

Four Aleutian volcanoes have been under elevated alert levels for about a year. Now they’ve been joined by a fifth.

Previously, Ravn Alaska was the only airline offering regularly scheduled flights between Unalaska and Anchorage.

It started with a question: Is it possible for the large container ships traveling from China to the United States to make the trip using renewable fuel sources?

“We’ve started going through our friends,” one tugboat captain said. “Like, ‘Hey man, do you want a freaking job?’”

The Kimball — which carries about 120 crew members, defensive weapons and a helicopter — came within about a mile of a group of Chinese and Japanese warships last month and made radio contact with them.

It costs more Alaska Air miles to fly from Anchorage to Unalaska than it does to fly to Paris.

The refrigerated cargo ship Orange Sea arrived in Unalaska with the old anchor tangled up with its own.

If all goes according to plan, Unalaska and Akutan will have high-speed internet by the end of this year.

The whale spotted last month was may have been a Baird’s beaked whale, but it hasn’t been confirmed yet.

WWII-era grenades, chemical weapons and other munitions have been turning up on the island’s hiking trails and beaches for decades.