Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Fuel rationing in the Pribilof Island community of St. Paul ended Tuesday after more than a month and a half of restrictions for residents and fishermen.City officials announced the ration in late February after bad weather repeatedly canceled the arrival of a fuel barge. The North Pacific Fuel barge finally arrived at the dock on Tuesday, according to City Manager Phil Zavadil. The city had been waiting on its arrival since November of last year. “I think we’ve been...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Fuel rationing in the Pribilof Island community of St. Paul ended Tuesday after more than a month and a half of restrictions for residents and fishermen.City officials announced the ration in late February after bad weather repeatedly canceled the arrival of a fuel barge. The North Pacific Fuel barge finally arrived at the dock on Tuesday, according to City Manager Phil Zavadil. The city had been waiting on its arrival since November of last year. “I think we’ve been...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.This story has been updated at 9:30 am on April 13, 2021.Unvaccinated people who visited Unalaska’s Norwegian Rat Saloon late Saturday are being asked to quarantine this week after officials say they shared the space with fishermen who broke their company’s own quarantine plans while they were awaiting COVID-19 testing results.The fishermen came from a United States Seafoods vessel where COVID-19 cases were suspected, but still visited the popular bar after 10 p.m., Unalaska City...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.This story has been updated at 9:30 am on April 13, 2021.Unvaccinated people who visited Unalaska’s Norwegian Rat Saloon late Saturday are being asked to quarantine this week after officials say they shared the space with fishermen who broke their company’s own quarantine plans while they were awaiting COVID-19 testing results.The fishermen came from a United States Seafoods vessel where COVID-19 cases were suspected, but still visited the popular bar after 10 p.m., Unalaska City...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.A third seafood processing plant has shut down in the Aleutian Islands amid a COVID-19 outbreak, threatening to further derail lucrative winter fisheries in the region.In the Aleutian port town of Unalaska, at least five local boats are stuck at the dock with nowhere to deliver their cod after the shutdown of the Alyeska Seafoods processing plant, according to a crew member on one of them, Tacho Camacho Castillo.Alyeska closed its plant Friday “based on a cluster of positive cases”...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.A third seafood processing plant has shut down in the Aleutian Islands amid a COVID-19 outbreak, threatening to further derail lucrative winter fisheries in the region.In the Aleutian port town of Unalaska, at least five local boats are stuck at the dock with nowhere to deliver their cod after the shutdown of the Alyeska Seafoods processing plant, according to a crew member on one of them, Tacho Camacho Castillo.Alyeska closed its plant Friday “based on a cluster of positive cases”...WW…

One of North America’s largest fish processing plants is shutting down as  grows and owner Trident Seafoods struggles to test its 700-person workforce. The plant, on the isolated island of Akutan, is the second in the Aleutians to shut down this year, just as the billion-dollar Bering Sea pollock fishery was set to kick off.  Now, fishermen and industry leaders are anxious that they might not have places to offload their catch, and that their plants might be the next to close down, said Dan Martin, who manages a fleet of nine pollock trawlers for a company called...…One of North America’s largest fish processing plants is shutting down as  grows and owner Trident Seafoods struggles to test its 700-person workforce. The plant, on the isolated island of Akutan, is the second in the Aleutians to shut down this year, just as the billion-dollar Bering Sea pollock fishery was set to kick off.  Now, fishermen and industry leaders are anxious that they might not have places to offload their catch, and that their plants might be the next to close down, said Dan Martin, who manages a fleet of nine pollock trawlers for a company called...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.In a , scientists said a string of volcanic Aleutian islands could be part of a single, massive undiscovered volcano.While scientists have been compiling their research for six years, there’s still a lot to piece together, said Diana Roman, a volcanologist with the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC.“This is a little bit like trying to put together a 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, where half of the pieces are missing, and you don’t have the box, so you don’t know...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.In a , scientists said a string of volcanic Aleutian islands could be part of a single, massive undiscovered volcano.While scientists have been compiling their research for six years, there’s still a lot to piece together, said Diana Roman, a volcanologist with the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC.“This is a little bit like trying to put together a 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, where half of the pieces are missing, and you don’t have the box, so you don’t know...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The company that bought Ravn’s core assets initially hoped to relaunch operations around this time, but the new owners now say that they hope to resume flying in another month, in mid-September.Rob McKinney is the new chief executive of the rebranded company, Ravn Alaska, and he says some unforeseen challenges delayed the relaunch of service to the Aleutian Islands, Bristol Bay, and Kenai Peninsula.“The sale getting pushed to last Friday is kind of what caused the delays, because...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The company that bought Ravn’s core assets initially hoped to relaunch operations around this time, but the new owners now say that they hope to resume flying in another month, in mid-September.Rob McKinney is the new chief executive of the rebranded company, Ravn Alaska, and he says some unforeseen challenges delayed the relaunch of service to the Aleutian Islands, Bristol Bay, and Kenai Peninsula.“The sale getting pushed to last Friday is kind of what caused the delays, because...WW…