From Fairbanks to Anchorage to Homer to Petersburg, Alaskans criticized early actions by the Trump administration and shared support for federal workers.

Since teaching herself to bead as an adult, Kauk’aq Susan Jones has created countless collections of beaded earrings celebrating her connection to Yup’ik culture and the ways in which traditional practices bring communities together.

The last-minute change follows pushback from mushers who called parts of the trail unsafe.

The Rural Resiliency Workshop later this month is a partnership between the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and regional tribal consortium the Association of Village Council Presidents.

Bethel's City Council ultimately appointed insurance agent John Lloyd to sit on the council to fill a vacant seat, but was divided on which of two candidates to appoint. After three rounds of tied votes, that resulted in a straw drawing.

Feb. 11 marked the closing of the 2025 Kuskokwim 300 race weekend with the annual Mushers Banquet.

The U.S. Coast Guard removed a crewmember from a Norwegian cargo vessel roughly 240 nautical miles southwest of Unalaska Wednesday.A rescue coordination center in Norway contacted the Coast Guard around 7 p.m. Tuesday, requesting a medical evacuation of a sick crewmember on board the Fermita.

Earlier this month, commercial snow crabs started hitting Unalaska’s docks again, for the first time in nearly three years. The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut down in October 2022. This season’s first catch was delivered on Jan. 15. Opilio, or snow crab, is generally fished in the new year and into the early spring. The season runs through the end of May.

Unalaska's U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit is investigating a fishing vessel that ran aground near Iliuliuk Bay. The F/V Northern Endurance was partially beached about three miles from downtown Unalaska, near Little Priest Rock on Thursday and was pulled free by the emergency response and salvage company Resolve Marine Friday morning around 9 a.m., according to Commanding Officer Lt. Lawrence Schalles.

Unangam Tunuu is taught in only a handful of classes in the public school system, and outside these sessions, the language is seldom spoken in everyday conversation. The struggle on St. Paul mirrors trends across Alaska. A 2024 report from the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council, a legislative council that advises the governor's office, found that all of the state’s Indigenous languages are critically endangered, with some spoken by fewer than a dozen people.