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Last month, representatives from Unalaska traveled to the interior to give a presentation on the Makushin Geothermal Project; in today’s climate, the Aleutian Islands are the windiest area in Alaska, but not for long; and a story from the archives about Unalaskans' donations following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

In a contentious City Council meeting Tuesday, councilors voted to keep Unalaska’s current mask mandate in place for the next two weeks; doctors who work at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage said Tuesday that they’ve begun to ration care as Alaska endures one of the worst surges of COVID-19 in the country; and the U.S. Coast Guard reported encountering Chinese warships within 50 miles of the Aleutian Islands this past August during patrols in the Arctic and Bering Sea.

Nearly nine months after Adak reported its first case of COVID-19, the nation’s westernmost city is seeing a spike in infections.

The Unalaska City Council voted Tuesday to keep the island’s current mask mandate in place.Over the past month, the city has experienced its largest surge of community-acquired COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, and city councilors remain cautious as hospitals in Anchorage near capacity.

This summer about 50 Unalaska youth returned to Humpy Cove for the island’s annual Qawalangin Tribe culture camp.The coronavirus pandemic canceled last year’s event and jeopardized camp this summer. But camp mentors and coordinators, from Nikolski to Soldotna, arrived just in time to teach local kids about making bentwood hats, harvesting fish and sea mammals and preserving Unangax̂ values.

“People are sick. That's very concerning to me,” said Iliuliuk Family and Health Services clinic CEO Melanee Tiura. “We've had other upticks in the past where our patients have done really well — our community has done really well — but at this point, we are definitely seeing more symptoms and more illness than we had in the past.”

Enveloped in a thin layer of clouds, a few dozen Unalaskans stood on a bank around Margaret's Bay on the evening of August 12 and watched as Unalaska…

Three volcanoes are currently erupting across the Aleutian Range — Great Sitkin and Semisopochnoi in the Aleutian Islands, and Pavlof Volcano on the…

The City of Unalaska raised its COVID-19 risk level and confirmed what it called "widespread community exposure" of the virus yesterday; Dr. Lisa…