Local News

The KUCB Newsroom provides newscasts every weekday at noon and 5 PM on KUCB Radio. The week's news is also compiled for Flash! News on Channel 8 Television. You can find many of our local news stories here.

LifeMed Improves Coverage Of The Aleutians

By Zoe Sobel • 22 hours ago

LifeMed Alaska now provides year round medevac service to the Aleutians.

Previously the air ambulance service operated a seasonal base in Unalaska during commercial fishing seasons and openings.

CEO Russell Edwards said in a statement "given the fact that Dutch Harbor is farther from Anchorage than Chicago is from New York City, decreasing response times during medical emergencies is crucial for patients through the Aleutians and surrounding areas."

MOTA Purchases Desmostylus Drawings

By Zoe Sobel • Apr 17, 2019

New art is coming to the Museum of the Aleutians thanks to a grant from the Rasmuson Foundation.

The funding has allowed the organization to purchase drawings by Ray Troll that depict an imagining of an extinct marine mammal, the desmostylus.

Director Virginia Hatfield says the creature looked like an ancient hippo.

Reinders Declines Seward Offer To Pursue Unalaska's City Manager Position

By Zoe Sobel • Apr 16, 2019

Erin Reinders wants to be Unalaska's next city manager.

The current assistant manager withdrew her application Monday for the top post in Seward.

"To serve as the city manager in Unalaska, the place my family has called home for almost eight years, is too great an opportunity to pass up," said Reinders in an email to KUCB.

Mayor Frank Kelty said he feels good that Reinders wants to stay in Unalaska.

City Loans Unalaska's Clinic $500K

By Laura Kraegel • Apr 16, 2019

Thanks to an emergency loan, Unalaska's clinic won't have to shut its doors in May.

Last week, the City Council voted unanimously April 9 to lend $500,000 to Iliuliuk Family and Health Services, which requested help after projecting its ninth deficit in 10 years.