Local Business

A popular convenience store in downtown Unalaska is under new management and stocking its shelves with lots of new items. Owners of the recently relaunched local business, K’s Snack Shack, want to cater to their main customers: Unalaska City School District students.

There’s a new option for dining in downtown Unalaska. San Diego Tacos To Go is the island’s newest Mexican restaurant, serving everything from burritos and tacos to seafood, beer, pizza and milkshakes.

After months of talks, a purchase agreement between Three Bears Alaska and Alaska Ship Supply is set to close Friday.

A cannabis dispensary could open in Unalaska before spring, but a few hurdles remain.

Unalaska’s new downtown convenience store welcomed a steady stream of customers during its grand opening on Monday.

The Corner Store is scheduled to open Monday, March 13, on the corner of Broadway Avenue and Fifth Street.

Eight Aleutian businesses were awarded $3,000 each in late April as part of a new microgrant program from the Aleutian Marketplace. Grant recipients range from an ice cream shop in King Cove to a notary in Unalaska to commercial fishermen in Sand Point. A total of $24,000 worth of grant money was distributed throughout the region. It’s the first of two rounds of grants through the partnership between the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association, TelAlaska, Wells Fargo and the Aleut Corporation. The organizations work with community members, small business owners and creative entrepreneurs throughout the region in an attempt to help fuel local economies.

Unalaska and Dutch Harbor are known for being a community of hard workers. It's a place where people might spend well over 12 hours a day at their jobs,…