For some wildlife biologists, getting to work on an island at the tip of the Aleutian Chain is the chance of a lifetime.
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Alaska port town reacts to Shell’s Arctic exit
Unalaska officials said the move won’t hit the city’s budget too hard. But local companies doing business with Shell are scrambling to figure out what it will mean for them.
Aleutians monument labeled threat, derided as ‘straw man’
Rep. Young and other Republicans attacked the idea of creating a marine national monument around the Aleutian Islands Tuesday morning.
Aleutian Islands’ ancient villages, volcanoes slowly reveal their secrets
For the past two summers, an interdisciplinary team has visited the Islands of the Four Mountains, in the central Aleutians, to study how resilient the earliest settlers had to be to live there thousands of years ago.
Women’s traditional chin tattoos are making a comeback in Alaska
A new generation is using tattoos to reclaim what it means to be a Native woman in the 21st century.
Massive seabird die-off hits Kodiak
Reports of bird carcasses along Kodiak’s shores started in April and May. By August things had gotten worse.