The Aleutians Fiber Project will run from Kodiak along the south side of the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutians.

Alaska health care providers say they’re relieved and grateful for a CDC decision that allows them to get vaccine booster shots.

Video footage indicates that as many as 60 people could have been exposed at the Norwegian Rat that night.

Indian Health Services has allocated 1,100 doses of the Moderna vaccine to the region, to date. Seven hundred have arrived, and 400 are still on the way.

The closure of the Cold Bay airport is the first of its kind during the pandemic, according to the Alaska Department of Transportation.