Zoë Sobel

It was a blustery fall day at Tom Madsen Airport. A PenAir flight from Anchorage was making its second attempt to land in Unalaska. Gusting tail-winds…

Unalaska Community Broadcasting has covered local news for the past 20 years.To mark the newsroom’s anniversary, KUCB is spending every Thursday of 2019…

Housing is not the main culprit for Unalaska’s high cost of living. That’s according to a survey conducted by the City of Unalaska’s Planning…

St. Paul Island could lose all air service starting Thursday and the city fears it will not return until Ravn Alaska’s airplanes are certified to fly over…

Unalaska has its first ever state wrestling champion.“I was really excited [for the match] because my brother Seth Henning, wrestled before me and lost,”…

For the 21st consecutive year, Dutch Harbor is America’s largest fishing port.According to an annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

Descendants of Alaska’s westernmost island want permanent access to their ancestral home. Since World War II, the Native people of Attu have been…

PenAir has canceled all flights to the Pribilof Islands for the rest of the month.In a letter to community leaders, PenAir’s Murphy Forner, senior vice…

This week, we’re sharing stories from the Battle of Attu and the greater Aleutian campaign of World War II.The conflict ended in the 1940s, but its legacy…

Trident Seafoods will pay $297,000 in a settlement with the federal government for Clean Water Act violations at plants in Sand Point and Wrangell.In both…

The Unalaska basketball teams play their first home games of the 2017-2018 season this week.Kent Russell has been coaching the boys’ team for 6 years.…

This year Ravn Alaska will start flying new routes in southwest Alaska, but at this point there’s no indication they’ll add legs to Unalaska.Steven Hill,…

Unalaska will have a mayoral recall election early next year, thanks to a successful petition submitted to city government. After being told there were…

Unalaska’s Sea Grant officers have rescued a northern fur seal pup found stranded on Front Beach. The pup has been sent to Seward’s Alaska Sealife Center…

Starting next summer, Unalaskans will able to rent jet skis and hire tour guides to show them the island’s waterfalls and wildlife. At least, that’s the…

The Bering Sea b?airdi crab fishery stayed closed this year for the fi?rst time in four seasons.State biologists decided there were too fe?w crab to…

Alaska’s endangered Steller sea lion population continues its precipitous decline. The 2016 survey by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…