Cold Bay News

The Coast Guard is searching for two people aboard a disabled 15-foot skiff near Amatignak Island roughly 130 miles southwest of Adak in the Aleutian Islands Sunday.

Lately, however, the borough's relationship with MMS has become strained, raising the possibility that a friend might turn against the controversial Lease Sale 214.

A moderate earthquake followed by an aftershock shook up the Alaska Peninsula region Saturday.

Seven fishermen who lost their lives at sea were honored Sunday, May 3, at the Seattle Fishermen's Memorial Service.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities announced today there will be 143 projects estimated at more than $1.2 billion in the capital and supplemental budgets for highways, aviation, and transit infrastructure.

Longtime Juneau resident Robert Vessey Berryhill died March 31, 2009, at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau.

A controversial road project through a prized wildlife refuge in Alaska, tucked into a sweeping bipartisan lands package, appears poised to make it into law.

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March 19, 2009 - Community leaders from King Cove, Alaska and the Aleutians East Borough are lauding the Alaska Delegation and Governor Sarah Palin as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote, as early as today, on the Alaska Peninsula Refuge Enhancement Act, part of the Omnibus Public Lands Package .

Postal rates are scheduled to rise nationwide in May, and that means an increase in the cost of shipping rates for bypass mail services to rural Alaska.

"It's a very interesting story that people don't know," said Suellyn Novak, president of the Alaska Veterans Museum.

Residents of King Cove on the Alaska Peninsula say they are a step closer to building a road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to connect them to the all-weather airport at Cold Bay, but construction is ...

The Senate has approved a bill setting aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness.

A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and crew safely completed the medevac of a 40-year old Chinese crewman from the Global Prosperity 160 miles south of Adak Island, Alaska, at 10:45 p.m. Saturday.

An oil industry supply boat sank near an offshore platform in icy Cook Inlet today after it began taking on water in the early morning hours.

First there was the "Bridge to Nowhere." Now Congress appears set to approve another remote Alaska project that critics call the "road to nowhere." Tucked away in a giant public lands bill that could reach a ...

A 58-year-old man died yesterday in a house fire west of Fairbanks, the fourth Alaska fire death just 10 days into 2009.

UNALASKA, AK A crab fisherman aboard the F/V Seabrooke fell overboard Tuesday morning when his foot became tangled in a line while he was setting crab pots.

Former Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich was sworn in today in the Senate chambers.A Hea s the first Democrat to represent Alaska in nearly 30 years.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday for a crab fisherman who fell overboard from his vessel Tuesday about 22 miles northwest of Cold Bay.