Sitka Planning Commission approved two conditional use permits at a short meeting Wednesday night. The first was for an accessory dwelling unit at 2011 Sawmill Creek Road. ADUs are conditional uses in the Residential-1 low density mobile home...
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins of Sitka has selected Anchorage Assembly member Zac Johnson as his running mate in his campaign for election as governor. Kreiss-Tomkins is a Democrat who represented Sitka in the Alaska House of Representatives for 10...
Trail users in Sitka can celebrate National Trails Day on Saturday by caring for the Cross Trail at a 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. work party, starting at the Kramer Avenue Cross Trail entrance. "Summer is kicking up, and people are getting back on the...
SEA WALKING - Construction continues on the Sea Walk around O'Connell Bridge Tuesday morning as an Allen Marine boat passes at left and tourists arrive at the lightering dock. Large boulders are being put in place by a K&E excavator during low...
About half of Sitka lost power for about an hour Tuesday night after a voltage transformer failed at the Green Lake power plant, the electric utility director said today. The electric department detected the fault at 9:56 p.m. on the Green Lake...
Sitka Community Land Trust has been selected to receive a $50,000 grant to help decrease the cost of building a house on the uplands of the trust's housing development on Halibut Point Road, the granting organization, Housing Alaskans, has...
U.S. Coast Guard Academy seniors on summer assignment at Air Station Sitka, Lili Feyk, left, and Lulu Vlases, center, run with an American flag as Sitkan Erika Knox, on bicycle, sets the pace Saturday on Harbor Drive. The women were taking part in...
After more than four decades fishing the Sitka Salmon Derby, Chris McGraw rose to the top of the ladder Saturday with a 36-pound catch, and stayed there until the horn sounded Sunday evening to end the event. “We were just getting to the point...
Today may be the first day of Pride Month, but creating spaces where people feel uplifted while knowing that there are many people in this community who support each other, as Sitka Pride organizer Willa Johnson put it, is not just a June...
State Champs - 2026 Sitka High School graduate Calder Prussian takes a victory run with the Alaska state flag after winning the Division II 100 meter race during the Alaska School Activities Association Track and Field State Championships at...
REGION V CHAMPS - Sitka Wolves Softball players and coaches pose with the Region V championship trophy Saturday afternoon on Moller Field. Sitka won the title in a hard-fought 6-5 game against Juneau-Douglas.
Mary Peltola, who is on a Southeast campaign swing as a candidate for U.S. Senate, spoke to a gathering of about 90 people in the ANB Founders Hall Thursday evening. After a performance by the Sitka Native Education Program’s G̲ajaa Héen Dancers,...
Sitka’s taxable value on property increased by 8.2% over last year, when the increase over the previous year was 7.9%, City Assessing Director Larry Reeder said at Tuesday's Assembly meeting. “Over the last five years we had periods where we rose...
To the steady drum beat of the exit song “Aana Hei,” belonging to the Kaagwaantaan, 12 paddlers ranging in age and experience launched from Starrigavan Thursday morning to begin their five-day canoe journey to Juneau, scheduled to arrive on June 2...
A contractor is working with heavy machinery on Kruzof Island to cut back brush and replace rotting decking along the motorized use trail system connecting Mud Bay with Shelikof Beach, Iris Meadows and Twin Lakes. Sitka Trail Works is leading the...
Sitka Police Department announced Wednesday that it is investigating reports that adults furnished alcohol to teens at a high school graduation party last week. Police Chief Michael Hall told the Sentinel on Thursday that the investigation is...
Sport anglers are ready to bait up again for the second and final weekend of the 71st annual Sitka Salmon Derby. The event wraps up Sunday evening. Lucas Kisaka, 11, is at the top of the leaderboard with the 31-pound king salmon he caught on...
Mt. Edgecumbe High School leaders have hired two new principals to lead the academic program and dormitory life at the state-run boarding school, respectively. Neville Boone, a public school administrator and former U.S. Marine, has been hired to...
Paddlers circle to shore before heading out on a five-day trip to Juneau to attend 2026 Celebration, an annual Native gathering hosted by Sealaska Heritage Institute, this morning at Starrigavan. The canoe trip is sponsored in part by SEARHC. More...
Sitka Parks and Recreation reported group and private swimming lessons were filled within minutes of the online posting of class offerings. Other programs are filling up almost as quickly, said Parks and Recreation manager Kevin Knox, including...