There’s going to be a Tanner crab season in the Eastern Aleutians for the first time in five years, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game; ballots from six rural Alaska villages were not fully counted in Alaska’s November elections after the Postal Service failed to deliver them to the state election headquarters before the election was certified; and congress has removed the provision that could have brought an end to a federal program that arranges pro bono assistance to people seeking legal protection from domestic violence threats.

The fall of Alaska’s king crab and snow crab fisheries is driving the F/V Time Bandit, featured on the Deadliest Catch, south to California where it will test a new deepwater crab fishery; Unalaska City School District Superintendent Jim Wilson says one of the island’s bus drivers is leaving town for a family emergency and the district will have to get by with just one bus for now; and the U.S. Coast Guard seized 117 pounds of illegally caught Halibut near Homer last week.

A long-awaited trial date will likely be set in a criminal case involving a fatal 2019 Unalaska vehicle crash; the hourly wage rates in some states are catching up to Alaska's, which has historically stayed higher than many around the the nation; and Vice President Kamala Harris vowed to protect the Indian Child Welfare Act during the the Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, D.C.

Unalaska City School District Superintendent Jim Wilson, who stepped into the position just a couple months ago, announced his resignation at the school board’s November meeting; the Board of Fisheries is considering whether to delay a decision on the best ways to protect the struggling Nushagak king salmon run in Bristol Bay; and there were no fatalities within Alaska’s commercial fishing fleets this year, for only the second time on record.

GCI’s fiber optic cable, a project years in the making and weeks away from completion, was damaged on Monday; the Pribilof Island community of St. George went almost a month without running water after a breakdown in its water system; and the International Pacific Halibut Commission is meets today to review a five-year research and monitoring program.

The Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board is working on a five-year plan and a longer-term vision, while Aleutian residents wait for the M/V Tustumena's replacement; one year ago, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland issued a declaration to remove a slur against Indigenous women from place names on federal lands, but three elementary students in Dillingham had been pushing for change long before the federal government started its process; and both the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Board of Fisheries and the the International Pacific Halibut Commission begin meetings this week.

Four Aleutian volcanoes have been under elevated alert levels for about a year, and now they’re joined by a fifth; a woman accused of voting illegally in both Alaska and Florida during the 2020 elections will face charges in a Florida court; and a look back at Gov. Mike Dunleavy's first four years in office, who secured a second term.

Alaska’s two Republican U.S. senators joined with Washington state’s two Democratic U.S. senators to request an immediate disaster declaration, aimed to help fishing-dependent communities cope with an unprecedented shutdown of Bering Sea crab fishing; and as tribes around Alaska are trying to find ways to stop climate change from eroding their ways of life, the Bureau of Indian Affairs announced more than $45 million in federal grant money for tribes around the country to address issues spurred by climate change, like access to traditional foods, clean waterways, and infrastructure in small villages.

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit near Nikolski around 6 a.m. Monday morning, about 48 miles southeast of Umnak Island at a depth of roughly 13 miles; Gov. Mike Dunleavy requested $287 million from the federal government last month for fishermen impacted by the Bering Sea snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab fisheries closures, but the current process of getting financial relief to fishermen may still take a very long time; and the state of Washington banned fish-farming with net pens in state waters Friday, citing danger to struggling native salmon.

Dozens of Unalaskans gathered at the island’s airport to welcome Aleutian Airways’ first commercial flight; Alaska’s two U.S. senators voted in favor of ending debate on a bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage rights; and state health officials are urging Alaskans to get flu vaccines and take other protective measures as case counts increase rapidly across the country.