The Unalaska City Council voted Tuesday to keep the island’s current mask mandate in place; Alaska’s already overwhelmed hospitals took on another 20 COVID-19 patients over the long Labor Day weekend, leaving nearly 200 people hospitalized with the coronavirus; and a look at what Unalaskans’ waste can tell us about local COVID-19 levels.
Hope McKenney is a public radio news director, reporter, producer and host based in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.