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Audio postcard: Sand Point celebrates its 50th high school graduation

The Aleutians East Borough school celebrated

The roughly 700 residents of St. Paul, seen here in 2024, rely on Ravn Alaska for flights to Anchorage.

Deadline extended as St. Paul faces loss of passenger air service

No airlines have applied to serve the isolated Pribilof community, who will lose its only commercial air service to Anchorage in the fall.

The Ounalashka Corp., Unalaska’s Native village corporation, recently chose Laresa Syverson as their new president following Denise Rankin’s departure.

New Ounalashka Corp. President Laresa Syverson talks future plans and goals

KUCB’s Andy Lusk sat down with Syverson to hear more about her plans for the job, the future of the corporation, as well as local land plans and renewable energy options.

Unalaska residents begin the "Walking With Our Sisters" march at the community center on May 5.

Unalaskans rallied in the rain for awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

"Walking With Our Sisters" marchers carried homemade signs that read “No more stolen sisters,” “Justice for the Missing and Murdered” and “We won’t be quiet” as they walked along Airport Beach Road to City Hall.

Alaska flag designer Benny Benson granted honorary doctorate

Daren Herman, grandson of Alaska flag designer Benny Benson, was in the state for the first time to accept an honorary degree on his late grandfather’s behalf. It had been almost a century since Benson’s unlikely win in a flag design contest for Alaska schoolchildren.

Syverson said her priorities are to keep the corporation’s day-to-day operations on track for summer and fall.

Laresa Syverson named president of Ounalashka Corp.

Laresa Syverson, who served as the Ounalashka Corporation’s technical lands manager for the last five years, took the leadership reins from Denise Rankin on May 2.

Peter Pan's King Cove facility, pictured in June 2024, has been out of operation since January of that year.

Oregon seafood company looks into buying Peter Pan’s King Cove plant

The plant was a major economic driver for the community until it closed last year.

Unalaskans gather around a table to play Go Fish, speaking in Unangam Tunuu during a weeklong language workshop in a Unalaska High School classroom on Feb. 7.

Young Unangax̂ preserve Native language their grandparents were once punished for speaking

Locals in Unalaska are partnering with a regional Native organization to preserve Unangam Tunuu for future generations.

The historic photograph of what appears to be a funeral was the only piece of evidence used to find the forgotten cemetary.

Cold Bay residents uncover a ‘completely forgotten’ WWII cemetery

At least 36 servicemen were buried at the Fort Randall Post Cemetery on the Alaska Peninsula.

On May 14, scientists collected mussels from the Dutch Harbor Spit.

Shellfish toxin testing project halted during federal funding review

The Knik Tribe in South Central Alaska has been running a Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning monitoring program for nearly two decades to prevent deadly tragedies. However, the project was placed on “pause” in April as the federal government investigates its “legitimacy” in order to continue funding.

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