St. Paul Island is at its highest coronavirus risk level, as active cases in the small Pribilof community rose to 12 on Wednesday; Sen. Dan Sullivan honors Mike Livingston and Gertrude Svarny as "Alaskan of the Week;" and Sen. Lisa Murkowski was one of several congressional candidates in Kodiak over the weekend for the island’s Crab Festival.
Hope McKenney is a public radio news director, reporter, producer and host based in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.