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Historians announced Thursday that they’ve uncovered evidence that key details about the teenager who designed Alaska’s state flag have been wrong for more than a century.Benny Benson, a Seward boarding school resident, won the state’s flag design contest in 1927. But he was a year older than previously thought, according to Michael iqyax̂ Livingston, who works for the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association’s community health services.“I've been working for several years with several other family tree researchers focused on Benny Benson's cultural heritage,” Livingston said. “And in the process of that research, we found what we believe were errors in his date of birth and his mother's maiden name.”
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Alaska is leading the nation in vaccinations per capita. But compared to many other parts of the state, Unalaska's vaccine rollout seems to be moving…
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Unalaska has received its second shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine, and clinic staff have already started giving out shots.The 300 doses from drug company…
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The collision of a warm, wet weather front with a mass of cold air from Siberia could set a new record: the lowest barometric pressure recorded in the…
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The first doses of COVID-19 vaccine have landed in Unalaska. The doses manufactured by drug company Moderna touched down around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday on a…
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Unalaska's clinic will soon have two different types of "rapid" COVID-19 testing devices — the Abbott IDNow system and the Cepheid GeneXpert IV-2…
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A heap of slimy fish heads nearly filled a deep tote. Above, workers finished sorting stacks of decapitated halibut they had run through a grim mechanical…
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The Yakov E. Netsvetov School in Atka has struggled with low enrollment in recent years. But this month, 10 students showed up for the first day of…
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Friday marks the end of Alaska's student count period, which determines how much funding public schools receive. To get full funding, schools need at…
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Seventy-five years after Japan invaded the furthest tip of the Aleutian chain, Attuans are returning home.In 1942, there were 44 people living on Attu…