It took Alaska a year or so longer to get back to full employment levels than it did for the nation as a whole.

The Aleutian village of Nikolski will celebrate the opening of its new community center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Aug. 22.

The Alaska Emergency Operations Center mistakenly sent an evacuation order to Unalaskans after a mid-July earthquake due to confusion over geography, a state emergency official said July 28.

It started with the goal of teaching kids traditions their elders feared would disappear. Today, some of those kids are becoming instructors.

A tsunami advisory was lifted for the Aleutians and the Pribilof Islands Wednesday morning, after one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula at about 3:25 p.m. Alaska time.

Alaska communities in the Aleutians and Pribilofs were under a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka at about 3:25 p.m. Alaska time. But it was lifted around 10:25 a.m. Wednesday.

A group of scientists wrapped up a deep-sea expedition in the western Aleutians this summer. They explored parts of the ocean floor no human has ever been before, and they found huge populations of healthy coral and sponges.

Unalaska’s city manager fired the island’s director of ports and harbors Wednesday, despite threats of a forthcoming lawsuit.

Unalaskans interested in running for local office can file candidacy with the city starting Thursday.

Ravn Alaska says they will stop serving the Pribilof community at the end of July.