The Unalaska City Council voted Tuesday to keep a community-wide mask mandate in place, as the state continues to lead the country in average new daily COVID cases per capita; a national debate is playing out over COVID-19 vaccine booster shots; and a federal judge has denied, for now, a request by some of Alaska’s biggest seafood companies to block the Biden administration from levying more fines on them for allegedly breaking federal shipping law.
Hope McKenney is a public radio news director, reporter, producer and host based in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.