UP FOR AUCTION - A buoy painted by Chelsea Huckbody hangs in the Island Artists Gallery today. It is one of dozens of buoys decorated by local artists which will be auctioned Saturday at the annual Brave Heart Volunteers Live Auction Gala, 6 p.m....

AmeriCorps Volunteer Program members Quincy May from Basehor, Kansas, at left, and Amanda Reyes, from Puerto Rico, clear overgrown grass from around grave markers at the city cemetery this morning. Thirteen AmeriCorps Volunteers joined Sitka...

Acting Sitka District Ranger Greg Dunn closed Blue Lake Road to all traffic, pedestrians and vehicle, for public safety. The road is estimated to be closed until  Sept. 25 The City & Borough of Sitka is conducting emergency...

At a special meeting tonight, the Assembly will conduct a second-round Zoom interview with Gerrie Cotter, the only applicant now being considered for city administrator. Cotter, administrator of Perry Township, Ohio, fared well enough in her...

The Southeast Regional Advisory Council for the Federal Subsistence Board will meet in Gustavus Oct. 20-22 and Heather Bauscher will be there with her newest cohort of students. Bauscher has led students through federal subsistence meetings since...

HARVEST TIME – Andrea Fraga and Kaleb Aldred, at right, sell flowers and produce grown in their Middle Island garden during the Sitka Farmers Market Saturday at ANB Founders Hall. The final market of the season will be held September 23 from 10...

WORLD'S FIRST – Shaakindustóow Ed Littlefield, back to camera, directs a rehearsal August 28 of the world's first Tlingit opera, “Ḵutulagaaw: The Tlingit – Russian Battles” in Juneau. The premiere will be Friday at Juneau's Thunder Mountain Middle...

RECOVERY MONTH – Kiksadi Clan members on shore greet a Tlingit-design canoe at Crescent Harbor Saturday. SEARHC, Sitka Counseling and Sitka Tribe of Alaska organized the event in recognition of National Recovery Month. The Sitka event included a...

The Assembly weighed options for raising money for a city-subsidized child care program Tuesday night, including a special election on a seasonal sales tax increase. No vote was taken at the regular meeting, but a majority of the Assembly members...

"Good boy, Cheddar, good boy!" Steve Prysunka shouted from down on the beach. Cheddar, a young golden retriever, had successfully located a human remains sample. Prysunka's wife, Lynn, held the couple's other dog, Kody, by the leash and...

On the heels of the three-day weekend, the Assembly will continue its discussion tonight on a funding plan to support local child care. Sponsors are putting together an ordinance for a special election ballot question to raise the roughly $1...

It’s early in the year for the 269 kids at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary, but Principal Mindy Barry is already seeing connections being formed and “positive energy.” “The energy does feel good, but we’re two and a half weeks in,” Barry said....

THANK YOU PICNIC – Democratic candidate for governor Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins talks to Sitkans gathered at the North Shelter at Halibut Point Recreation Area Friday. Keiss-Tomkins, who grew up in Sitka and was the top vote-getter in the state...

DOG DAYS – Marcy Larson with Juneau's Southeast Alaska Dogs Organized for Ground Search (SEADOGS), holding leash at right, arrives in Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport this morning with Tika, one of twenty dogs and 30 people in town for this weekend's...

So far, Sitka's 49th annual Mudball Classic Softball Tournament hasn't been very muddy. And if the forecast this weekend holds true, local ball fields might stay dry for every game. The Mudball softball tournament brings teams from Southeast...

Sitka Planning Commission members offered direction Wednesday night on consultants' concept plans for developing large vacant parcels of city land for housing. A few people from the public attended the regular meeting, which was mostly a report...

A traditional feast will be hosted by Sitka Tribe of Alaska tonight to celebrate the end of the 2026 Alaska Regional Conference of the Native American Fish & Wildlife Society. The annual conference of tribal land managers from across Alaska is...

At the Sitka School Board meeting Wednesday, members approved seven resolutions to forward to the Association of Alaska School Boards for consideration at their annual conference in November. The resolutions touch on artificial intelligence...

Pacific High School sets a course for a successful school year by first laying solid groundwork with students, parents and guardians in the opening days of the school year. “Part of how we run our school is very much community-centered, and...