A seven-year-long case involving the death of two Unalaska teen girls has come to a close, after the state dropped charges against 25-year-old Dustin Ruckman on Wednesday.

Unalaska City Council members approved several major spending items at their Tuesday meeting, but warned that the city is facing long-term budget challenges. The City Council unanimously approved school funding, community support grants and a capital plan with more than $20 million worth of projects.

The federal government is looking for an airline to serve the small Eastern Aleutian community of King Cove through its Essential Air Service program, which subsidizes airfare in mainly rural communities around the country where it would otherwise be unviable for airlines to provide service.

Alaska-based telecommunications company GCI announced plans Wednesday to acquire Quintillion in a $310 million deal. If state and federal regulators approve the deal, the companies say they’ll be able to merge their network infrastructure, making internet service across huge swaths of the state more reliable.

The U.S. Coast Guard pulled two hikers to safety from Unalaska’s Makushin Volcano Sunday evening.

The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska started their recycling program in 2024, collecting glass, No. 1 plastic, aluminum and cardboard.

Aleutian Airways flew its first scheduled Saab 2000 flight to St. Paul on Monday, restoring regularly scheduled passenger service to Anchorage nearly nine months after Ravn Alaska ended its route to the Bering Sea community. Since then, residents have relied on expensive charter flights. Now, after months of delays and uncertainty, residents can finally book a regular commercial flight again.

Student athletes and their friends, families and coaches from around the state filled the stands at Anchorage’s Alaska Airlines Center over the weekend for the 2026 Native Youth Olympics.

The Coast Guard says it seized more than $65,000 worth of pollock roe from an American Seafoods vessel near Dutch Harbor. The company says it was a paperwork dispute, not hidden catch.

The Aleutians East Borough, the Native Village of Unga and two Aleutian fishing groups are asking a state court to void fishing regulations adopted at a February state Board of Fisheries meeting.