Police Blotter Sitka Police Department received the following calls in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. today. June 16 At 9:25 a.m. a flag flying upside down on top of a tree near the Mt. Edgecumbe High swimming pool was taken down. A case was...
Read previous police reports
20 YEARS AGO
June 2005
Photo caption: Graham Wichman, has been named to the chancellor’s list at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The 1998 Sitka High graduate is majoring in mechanical engineering. He’s the son of Columbus and Marie Wichman, grandson of Harriet Kinberg and great-grandson of Alpha Kinberg.
50 YEARS AGO
June 1975
Chamber of Commerce column by Jim Davis: The construction and paving of the Sitka Airport is still running with the schedule and should be completed by Sept. 1, according to a report by Associated Engineers and contractors to Mayor John Dapcevich. ... It is also good news to know that construction of the Sitka Coast Guard Station should begin around August 1.
Read previous Sitka Yesterdays
The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed opening about 7 million more federally managed acres on Alaska’s North Slope to new oil development, resurrecting a pro-drilling plan proposed in the first Trump administration but never adopted. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management released the new draft integrated activity plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. […]
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed a bill that would have increased the transparency of the state’s tax-audit process, citing legal concerns. As written, Senate Bill 183 would have required the executive branch to provide reports to the Legislature’s auditors “in the form or format requested” requested by legislators. That bit of arcane statutory work was […]
A stretch of the Dalton Highway near the Saginavirktok River was washed out by flood waters on Saturday, leading to an 80-foot-wide gap in the only road leading to Prudhoe Bay. As a result, the highway is closed between Milepost 305 and 356. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, which said the washout […]
Petra Kvitova is returning to Wimbledon after the 2011 and 2014 champion was awarded a wild card Wednesday for this year’s tournament. Kvitova last played at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament …
ASCOT, England (AP) — Photo highlights from the opening day of the Royal Ascot horse racing meeting at Ascot, England. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. ____ Follow …
Cancer patients say they’ve grown sicker since Argentina’s radical libertarian President Javier Milei took his chainsaw to the public health system. Human rights groups have documented the deaths …
