A group of researchers aiming to curb greenhouse emissions within the shipping industry looks to the Aleutians as a possible 'green corridor'; low Chinook and chum salmon runs hit subsistence fishermen in Western Alaska; and going against decades of precedent in law on Native American sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an Oklahoma case that states can prosecute non-Native people for crimes against Native people that occur on tribal land.
Theo Greenly covers the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands for the Alaska Desk from partner stations KUCB in Unalaska, KSDP in Sand Point and KUHB in Saint Paul.