Unalaska News

The damaged Royal Shell Dutch drilling barge Kulluk is loaded onto the transport ship XRK in Unalaska, Alaska.

Let this be a lesson to those of you who plan to visit Unalaska, Alaska : If you park at Safeway with a garbage bag full of fish fillets in your pickup's bed, the eagles will find you.

You've probably never seen so many bald eagles in one place. Bald eagles might be scarce in the lower 48 of the United States, but the noble national bird is in abundance in the unusually named and lovely town of Unalaska, Alaska.

Police in Unalaska, Alaska, were dispatched to a Safeway parking lot last week when dozens of Bald Eagles, America's proud national bird, swarmed on a pickup truck to eat old and gross fish parts from trash bags in the truck's bed.

DUI Caller reported a possibly intoxicated driver. Officers contacted the suspect and found that he was not intoxicated but rather a new driver using an iPod and cell phone while attempting to safely control several thousand pounds of metal and rubber.

The Unalaska Department of Public Safety tells KUCB there were so many eagles hanging around a pickup in the Safeway parking last Thursday that police had to be called to break up the party.

Criminal Mischief Two drunken crewman who had already been asked to leave the Harbor View Bar due to their inimical behavior returned to their vessel and engaged in repeated displays of machismo, strewing one another's belongings about a stateroom, punching one another, breaking sunglasses and agreeing to meet on the dock for a duel to settle their ... (more)

It pays not to kill crab. Or at least that's what Unalaska's smallest fish processor is banking on for a new business venture.

Officers responded to a residence to assist a very intoxicated individual in removing an unknown and unwanted guest.