Cargo ship ablaze near Alaska’s Dutch Harbor . Dec. 30, 2023 at 12:19 pm Updated Dec. 30, 2023 at 1:19 pm . By . Anna Patrick. Seattle Times staff reporter.

DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska -- The feeling this year on his winter trip to Alaska was a marked change from decades past. For longtime crabber Joe McIntosh, it held all the appeal of picking up a final ...

The 410-foot (125-meter) cargo ship Genius Star XI was directed to continue to the port at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. A Coast Guard airplane and the Coast Guard ship Alex Haley were sent to assist.

This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a reported fire aboard the 410-foot cargo vessel Genius Star XI, approximately 200 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2023.

Terminals in Dutch Harbor and Kodiak are on the chopping block. The Cape Sorel, a Denmark-flagged container ship, is slated for a final westbound voyage out of Dutch Harbor Feb. 11.

This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a fire aboard the 410-foot cargo vessel Genius Star XI, approximately 200 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska on Thursday.

The Coast Guard diverted the 410-foot (125-meter) cargo ship to Dutch Harbor, one of the nation’s busiest fishing ports located in Unalaska, an Aleutian Islands community about 800 miles (1,287 ...

The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) arrived in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Tuesday, for a logistics stop 30 days into a months-long Arctic deployment to protect the nation’s maritime ...

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DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska—On patrol in the Bering Sea last fall, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball spotted seven Chinese and Russian vessels steaming through the frigid waters in a double line near ...

Terminals in Dutch Harbor and Kodiak are on the chopping block. The Cape Sorel, a Denmark-flagged container ship, is slated for a final westbound voyage out of Dutch Harbor Feb. 11.