King Cove News

King Cove electric workers Gunnar Bendixson and George Simmons stand by the new boiler at the King Cove power house.

The Coast Guard, in partnership with Alaska Department of Fish and Game personnel, are deploying to safeguard the crab fleet departing today for the start of the 2009 - 2010 crabbing season in the Bearing Sea.

The Aleutian Islands community of King Cove in Southwest Alaska is celebrating 60 years since incorporation in 1949.

TelAlaska Cellular has added wireless telephone service to Cold Bay, Fort Yukon and King Cove for the first time, the company said.

Fifteen years after establishing its first hydroelectric facility, the city of King Cove is on a mission to bring a companion hydro facility online by 2011 in an effort to hold down power costs and sell energy to a fish processing plant critical to the local economy.

An Alaska company is extending cell phone service to the Arctic boroughs. Dan Boyette, vice president of rural consumer service at GCI, says the expansion is part of the company's plan to offer service in every community in the state within two years.

Five rural communities on the Aleutians are set to receive new all-hazard warning siren systems within the next year.

Salmon fishermen at Bristol Bay were bracing for another surge of reds over the July 4 weekend -- and likely more catch limits.

A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules crew sighted a Kodiak-based fishing vessel illegally fishing approximately 24 miles south of King Cove Monday morning in the Clubbing Rocks No Transit Zone engaged in halibut fishing.

A federal council edging toward a five-year review of the controversial plan that privatized the multi-million dollar crab fisheries gathered additional testimony June 6-7 in Anchorage in support of and opposition to the program.

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.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On May 17, 2009, a son, Brody Tyler Hommel, weighing 6 pounds, 11 ounces, to Amber and Kyle Hommel, of Wrangell.

A MODERATE earthquake measuring 5.6 hit the Alaska Peninsula late on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the US government said.