When the base was active, there were about 6,000 residents on Adak Island. The 2020 census counted 171 residents. Lockett says that’s probably now down to below 50 full-time residents.

The Aleut Corp., Adak’s regional Native corporation, signed an agreement in May 2025 to lease 3,500 acres to Pacific H2, an ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — On a desolate slab of island tundra in western Alaska, a resident of Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for president, continuing a 12-year ...