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Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan introduced an updated bill last month that would require new monitoring and bycatch regulations in the trawl industry, along with increased transparency for fisheries policymaking and data monitoring.
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Construction on a controversial stretch of road between two Eastern Aleutian towns could begin as soon as next month, according to the State of Alaska.
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How the Pribilof community fought for centuries for their freedom.
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Seven candidates are running for House District 37, which covers Southwest Alaska including the Aleutians and Pribilof Islands. Longtime Rep. Bryce Edgmon, an independent from Dillingham, is leaving the seat after his 20th year to run for state Senate.
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The U.S. Coast Guard recently replaced about 30 buoys near False Pass, just in time for the bulk of the region’s summer salmon vessel traffic.
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Three sailors are safe after being rescued in the North Pacific, about a thousand miles southwest of Adak in the western Aleutians.
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An international marine renewable energy company is looking to help False Pass bring tidal energy to its shores.
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Dozens of people gathered at the Burma Road Chapel last month for Unalaska’s second annual Juneteenth celebration, hosted by the city’s Department of Parks, Culture and Recreation.
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Officials with a U.S. Department of Defense agency are preparing to exhume the remains of an unidentified WWII soldier known simply as “X-3” who is buried in the Sitka National Cemetery. They say it could be a man named Eugene Christensen, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces who they believe died in a plane crash in the Aleutian Islands Campaign in 1942.
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Unalaska’s summer tourism season began this month with the state ferry M/V Tustumena’s first port call of the year on June 6, kicking off the Aleutian Island’s ferry and cruise ship season.