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How sound waves from a volcano in Tonga traveled to the Aleutian Islands; the Alaska Legislature supports a lawsuit by university students against the Dunleavy administration; and the City of Unalaska reported 81 new cases of COVID-19 over the three-day weekend.

Communities across the West Coast woke up Saturday morning to tsunami advisory alerts. An underwater volcano near the Kingdom of Tonga had erupted and sent waves thousands of miles across the ocean.Waves of up to about three feet reached parts of Alaska by Saturday morning. But hours before those waves arrived, sounds from the blast reached the homes of many Alaskans — all the way from Juneau to the Aleutians.

A tsunami advisory for communities in coastal Alaska, including the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, was canceled Saturday afternoon. The National Weather Service issued the tsunami advisory for much of coastal California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska following a volcanic eruption near Tonga in the South Pacific on Friday.

The National Weather Service has issued a tsunami advisory for Unalaska following a volcanic eruption in the Tonga Islands. No evacuation has been issued due to insignificant wave projections. This is a developing story.

There are more Indigenous people living in Alaska than anywhere else in the United States. But Alaska Native students are vastly underrepresented on college campuses. And when it comes to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math — fields that are especially dominated by white men — Alaska Native students face even greater barriers to entry. Dr. Michele Yatchmeneff wants to change that.

A magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit about 58 miles southeast of Nikolski early Tuesday morning, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.Natalia Ruppert, a seismologist with the AEC in Fairbanks, said the earthquake hit at about 2:30 a.m. and was preceded and followed by more seismic activity.

Unalaska’s clinic is out of its most efficient COVID-19 test kits, prompting health officials to recommend against retesting for island residents who test positive with at-home kits.

Two people from St. Paul have been charged with killing a toddler who was in their care, according to troopers; scientists have downgraded the alert level at Davidof Volcano in the Western Aleutians; and as the omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads in Alaska, state public health officials say their systems for monitoring and responding continue to adapt to the latest science, the needs of Alaskans and the resources available.

Unalaska has set a new record for the warmest Christmas in Alaska.Temperatures in the island community soared to 56 degrees on Saturday. That broke the prior Christmas Day record of 55 degrees set in the Southeast Alaska community of Metlakatla in 2009, according to climatologist Rick Thoman, who works for the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

St. George residents say they’ve been without running water since Saturday. That’s after a fuel barge delay and stormy weather caused widespread power outages and forced residents to ration heat in their homes amidst freezing temperatures.“Whatever led up to the situation where all the sudden we don't have any fuel in the dead of winter, and with all these storms coming through, is beyond me,” said St. George resident Victor Malavansky. “I would like to say this is totally unacceptable.”