City leaders are asking Sitkans for feedback on a draft ordinance that would establish the city’s first specific permitting regulations for new cruise ship docks, or the expansion of existing cruise ship docks in the City and Borough of...

Sitkans will elect two Assembly members, three School Board members and a new mayor, and weigh in on the Assembly’s special election discretion when they vote in the municipal election on Tuesday, Oct. 6. To help voters make informed decisions,...

LAST SHIP - Tourists return to their cruise ship this afternoon at the Sitka Sound Cruise Terminal. The Holand America Line ship Eurodam with a passenger capacity of 2,104 was the last ship on the 2026 schedule. The next ship, the Zaandam, will...

The city election is just a week away, but more than 400 Sitkans have been already cast ballots through early voting at Centennial Hall. On the ballot are candidates for mayor, Assembly, and Sitka School Board, and a ballot question. Early...

A question on the October 6 municipal election ballot will ask voters if they want to remove a provision in the municipal charter that requires the city to have a special election on an initiative petition in certain situations. Ballot...

After donning a survival suit and getting in a life raft as his boat began to sink near Murder Cove on Admiralty Island Sunday morning, the Sitka fisherman aboard the 40-foot wood troller Tyee made it to shore and was in stable condition when he...

A group of family members traveled from Ketchikan to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, last week for the purpose of repatriating their ancestor, Mabel Stack, who died in 1904 as a young girl attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The...

Sitka Tribe of Alaska and Outer Coast are hosting an Orange Shirt day memorial event from 6 to 7:30 p.m Wednesday at the Sheet’ká Ḵwáan Naa Kahídi.  Orange Shirt day is observed every year to raise awareness for and memorialize Indigenous...

VANISHED WORLD - Troller and photographer Matt Donohoe, in stocking hat, listens to the introduction of a short documentary video based on photographs he took in the 1980s of the fishing community in Southeast, Monday night. The video, titled...

A mariner aboard the 40-foot fishing vessel Tyee was rescued from a beach near Keku Strait on Monday after his vessel apparently sank, a U.S. Coast Guard official said today. USCG was contacted at 1:54 p.m. Monday with information indicating the...

Sitka High’s music program will start its concert season on a high note Wednesday, with pieces by choir, jazz and symphonic band groups. The concert starts at 7 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center. SHS music director Andrew Hames says it’s early...

The U.S. Forest Service is holding four public hearings in Alaska this week to take public comment on how the proposed rescission of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule could affect subsistence harvesting in Alaska. Two of the hearings will be...

The Sitka Planning Commission and Tourism Commission will hold a “listening session” tonight for the public to ask questions and voice opinions about an ordinance to regulate cruise ship docks. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. in Harrigan Centennial...

PUBLIC LANDS - Volunteers set out to work on trails along the Starrigavan estuary Saturday during a work party held in observance of National Public Lands Day. Sitka Trail Works and the U.S. Forest Service Sitka Ranger District organized the event...

OPEN SHELTER - Chandler O'Connell, community catalyst at Sitka Conservation Society, puts up a poster near the new learning shelter at Pacific High School this afternoon in preparation for an open house from 4 to 6 p.m. today. The 24-foot by...

The three candidates for Mayor in the Oct. 6 city election spoke their views on leadership, city finances, the local economy, housing and childcare Wednesday evening at a public forum held by the Chamber of Commerce. Lisa Lane, Kevin Mosher and...

Over the summer the Sitka School District received financial support from the state, with a one-time energy relief grant, and an increase in per-student funding, School Board president Phil Burdick reported to the Assembly. The amount of the...

A group of Sitkans are banding together to help get life-saving services to people in Gaza, who are living in dire conditions in large displacement camps. The local group is working with Tamie Parker Song, an Alaskan with deep ties to Gaza who in...

CHANNEL CONSTRUCTION - Workers with Whiting-Turner Contracting Company drive pilings into Sitka Channel this morning as part of the $50.475 million project to build a dock and other infrastructure for the fast response cutter Douglas Denman, and...

An ordinance that would relax city requirements on construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in residential neighborhoods was passed on first reading at Tuesday night's regular meeting of the City and Borough Assembly. The proposed...