HONORING INDIGENOUS VICTIMS - Outer Coast student Lulah Entwistle, left, lights a candle held by Georgianna Sam Tuesday in Totem Square. About 75 Sitkans gathered in the square for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) Awareness Day...

Mt. Edgecumbe High School Superintendent David Langford this week announced the names of the three finalists for the school's academic and residential (dormitory) principal positions. MEHS posted hiring announcements at the beginning of April for...

Out-going Fire Chief Craig Warren introduced the interim chief and highlighted the achievements of the most recent class of EMT students in his brief final quarterly report to the Assembly last week. Warren retired last week after a 35-year...

In a face-off at the UAS-Sitka campus hangar Sunday, local welding students prevailed over a team of their peers from Ketchikan in the first in-person welding competition between the two communities. UAS-Sitka welding instructor Luke Gibes told...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has appointed Paul Cyr of Ketchikan to serve a three-year term on the Alaska Board of Fisheries, the governor’s office said Friday. Board of Fish members are selected by the governor and confirmed by the Legislature. As of...

The Alaska Judicial Council has announced that a hearing will be held at 4:40 p.m. May 7 to solicit public comment on 21 Alaska District and Superior Court judges, as well as Alaska Supreme Court Justice Jude Pate, who will be on the ballot in...

Zeke Blackwell, as Prospero, addresses Ryan Cotter, in the role of Arial, on the beach in front of Sitka Sound Science Center's Mill Builiding Saturday night during a performance of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." The play was cast, costumed,...

A Sitka Sound Science Center theater adventure kicks off tonight, and the public is invited to see the results of the experiment Saturday. “The 24-Hour Tempest” challenges actors to rehearse and produce the Shakespeare classic play in a 24-hour...

The increase in reading proficiency in the kindergarten and first grade levels during the year reinforces the importance of supporting schools and keeping class sizes small, the Assembly was told Tuesday. “This kind of achievement is possible...

Tlingit storyteller Bob Sam looks up at the re-articulated juvenile humpback whale hanging in the atrium of the UAS Sitka Campus building as he tells "The Story of Raven & Whale," Thursday night. The story was part of an unveiling ceremony for...

Over the last four months Mt. Edgecumbe High School students who come from all parts of Alaska have been gathering every Sunday evening in a classroom to teach one another the songs, dances, and traditions of their cultures—an exchange that the students say is building community at the state-run boarding school.

USEFUL LESSON – Sitka High School student Shania Puebla teaches fourth graders Eivin Rennie, left, and Auggie Merculief how to roll lumpia in teacher Kristine Hole's classroom Tuesday. Shania and a half-dozen other multilingual high schoolers in...

“This is an absolutely historic moment,” House District 2 Rep. Rebecca Himschoot said. “I hope he vetoes it,” said Sen. Bert Stedman, who represents Senate District A. “There are some problems there.” Sitka’s legislators expressed divergent...

At a government to-government meeting Wednesday evening, Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal Council and the City and Borough Assembly agreed on the need to fund local schools to the cap; to expand Sitka’s housing stock; and aid residents struggling to...

Just before 9 p.m. Tuesday the Hames family and many of their friends gathered around a Sea Mart checkout aisle as store owners Roger and Mary Hames filled their cart to the brim with groceries, and paid with a charge slip, one last...

The Assembly at its meeting Tuesday approved on introduction two ordinances, one of which sets procedures for applying for and accepting donations to the city and another that establishes city policy for naming public places. A third ordinance...

A crew from the Public Works Department sets up portable toilets in the middle of Maksoutoff Street this morning. The toilets will remain in the street through the five-month tourist season. (Sentinel Photo by JAMES POULSON)

A small cast of Sitka High students is bringing the absurd, mature comedy "Wonder of the World" to the stage this weekend. The play follows Cass, a woman who abruptly leaves her husband after discovering a dark secret, and sets off toward Niagara...

University of Alaska Southeast will unveil a juvenile humpback whale skeleton in the campus atrium 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday. The event, co-sponsored by Sitka High and UAS, includes a Tlingit story of Raven and Whale told by Bob Sam, a slide show of...

The metrics of Sitka's housing crisis were front and center at the Chamber of Commerce meeting Wednesday, with an economic consultant's report that lack of affordable housing is a primary reason Sitka's population is down nearly 1,000 in the last...