Search results for

The community convened over food and entertainment in the last hurrah of the season.

After nearly two years without a stable police force, the remote Pribilof Island community of St. Paul is welcoming new Village Public Safety Officers. City Manager Philip Zavadil said he thinks the transition from a police force to public safety officers will be a good change for the remote community. “Not only is it a good fit for St. Paul, I think for most of rural Alaska, it's a better fit because we're not big [cities],” Zavadil said. “We have different problems, different ways of resolving those problems, different challenges.”

Unalaska now has the fastest cell service in rural Alaska. That’s according to telecommunications company GCI, which turned up the high speed service on the island Tuesday, making it the state’s first rural community with a 5G connection.

After 200 years of obscurity, the niĝilax̂ has returned. Four communities have built the traditional boat this year, after studying historical documents, sketches, and artifacts to learn how they were made.

Two ash eruptions from Shishaldin Volcano disrupted air travel to the Aleutians Tuesday.

Theckla Marie Hamblin (Bear) was born in Belkofski, Alaska and later moved to Akutan as a child. She lived in Tacoma, WA for most of her adult life but she returned to the Aleutians for her elderly years, which she spent here in Unalaska. Those who knew Hamblin remember her as a very loving, giving and kind person.

Communities in the Aleutians East Borough are bracing for a revenue hit, as the region’s largest seafood processor builds a new facility outside of the borough.

The fifth annual Aleutian Electrocution music and arts festival brought thrilling performances and summer celebration to Unalaskans in late July. The festival's founder is still deciding whether or not the tradition will continue into 2024.

Several U.S. Navy warships were dispatched to the Aleutian Islands last week, after 11 Chinese and Russian military vessels were found operating in the region. The exact location of the foreign ships was not disclosed.

Coastal Alaska is on the front lines of climate change. Extreme weather events are becoming more common, and many communities along Alaska’s shores wonder if the future will bring more of the same. A group of researchers tries to answer what storms might look like in the future by turning toward the past.