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For this episode of “Island Interviews,” KUCB’s Sofia Stuart-Rasi sat down with Edgmon to talk about his run for the state Senate and how the most recent legislative session went.

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.

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.

A team of researchers were awarded a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research mercury in the Aleutians. They wanted to know: Has mercury always been part of the Aleutian ecosystem, or did it arrive recently with the Industrial Revolution?

Philip Michael Hanson, fondly known as Phil, Hanson, and - by those who loved him most - Poppy, passed away on June 14, 2026.

When it comes to monitoring the health of the ocean, scientists rely on dead seabirds, specifically how many wash up on beaches. On May 31, several Unalaskans gathered at the PCR to learn how to count them.

GCI had expected repairs to be finished on June 12, but weather conditions pushed back the work.

A repair vessel, the Cable Innovator, arrived near Chignik Bay on June 7, and crews started pulling the damaged cable up from the ocean floor, according to Josh Edge, GCI’s communications manager.

The Alaska Native Language Center published a novel on June 1 that adapts a story from Rudyard Kipling’s famous “The Jungle Book.” The story is the only one from Kipling’s collection that takes place outside of India, set in part on a beach in the middle of the Bering Sea, on St. Paul Island.

On May 29, the students presented their projects to about a dozen locals at the Unalaska Public Library, where they also took questions from the crowd. Alaska holds its statewide History Day contest entirely online, so the gathering was practice for the in-person judges they’ll soon face.