This summer is shaping up to be another quiet tourism season in Unalaska.
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Governor, lawmakers unveil plan to use $76.8M federal windfall to fund ferries for 18 months
The governor and legislative leaders have agreed on a rough plan to use federal pandemic relief from Congress to help stabilize Alaska’s beleaguered ferry system.
Volcanic activity at Semisopochnoi prompts ashfall warning for fishing boats
The volcano is on an uninhabited island in the Rat Islands, about 600 miles southwest of Unalaska.
After 5-month wait forces fuel rationing, barge arrives in St. Paul
Fuel rationing in the Pribilof Island community of St. Paul ended last week after more than a month and a half of restrictions for residents and fishermen.
US Seafoods apologizes to Unalaska after COVID-positive crew caused widespread exposure at bar
Video footage indicates that as many as 60 people could have been exposed at the Norwegian Rat that night.
Bering Sea fishermen likely had COVID-19 but still went to Unalaska bar. Now, locals have to quarantine.
The city is considering what kind of action it could take against the crew members who knew they may have been COVID-positive and still breached quarantine to visit the saloon.
Key federal fisheries advisory panel loses Alaska Native voice
The blowback of Hayden’s ouster was immediate, especially among stakeholders advocating for Indigenous voices in fisheries management.
More than a year into the pandemic, St. Paul Island has its first case of COVID-19
St. Paul has implemented a two-week hunker-down order after officials confirmed the island’s first case of COVID-19 Wednesday.
With fishing slowed by pandemic, Bering Sea crabbers push for extended season
A group of Bering Sea crabbers say they want more time to catch their quota before the state shuts down their season next week.
Unalaska cashes in on new Biden administration boon to vaccinate 1,800 at mass clinic
Despite difficulties with getting access to COVID-19 vaccines earlier in the year, roughly 1,800 people in Unalaska were vaccinated at a mass vaccination clinic on Thursday.