The Alaska Board of Game held deliberations on Monday evening and Tuesday morning over regulations affecting state-managed wildlife harvests in the Ketchikan-area Unit 1A and Prince of Wales Island-area Unit 2, and approved just two of the 20...
The Assembly at tonight’s regular meeting faces decisions related to child care funding, the new seaplane dock and traffic at the industrial park, among others on a packed agenda. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at Harrigan Centennial Hall, and...
Southeast Alaskans are sounding the alarm about a 60-day review of the Federal Subsistence Management Program that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior are currently conducting in Alaska. A public comment period is open through Feb....
Meeting in Wrangell's Nolan Center over the weekend, the seven-member Alaska Board of Game heard testimony from Southeast Alaska hunters and trappers, and made decisions on proposed changes to state regulations that govern the harvest of deer,...
A Sitka man has been charged with assault, harassment and criminal mischief after a fight with police in which prosecutors say he spit blood and threw items at them. Derek Baird, 38, is charged with three felonies and 10 misdemeanors,...
Alaska Board of Game chair Jake Fletcher of Talkeetna called the Board’s 2026 Southeast Alaska regulatory meeting to order in Wrangell’s Nolan Center this morning. In its five-day Southeast meeting, the Board will decide on about 70...
A Sitka grand jury on Thursday indicted a Sitka woman, Stephanie Two-Two, 45, on one count of first-degree burglary and 18 counts of second-degree theft for stealing firearms and other items from the Camp Coogan Bay residence of Quinn Whitten and...
The death of a Sitka woman found in her home Thursday is being investigated as a criminal matter, Sitka Police Department said today. A woman told police about noon Thursday that she had found her friend, Kerry Livingston-Callow, 67, unresponsive...
Sitka Planning Commission voted Wednesday night to approve a conditional use permit for a new marijuana retail business at 327 Seward Street. The business is still making its way through the permitting process through the state Alcohol &...
On Friday and Saturday night, actors will take the stage at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp’s Odess Theater. Not even they know what will happen next. That’s the point of the “Two Nights of Improv Comedy” production, to be held at 7 p.m. on...
The Sitka Planning Commission at tonight’s meeting will consider a conditional use request for a marijuana retail business, at 327 Seward Street. The location of the proposed cannabis shop is just past Highliner Coffee on the one-way access road...
Both Blue Lake Road and Green Lake Road are clear of soil, rock, wood and other avalanche debris, the city announced Friday. In an email Friday, city utility director Ron Vinson announced that both roads are now usable by city personnel for city...
This year’s NEA-Alaska Exemplary Student award winner, Sitka High School senior Francis Myers, says he and other Alaska students will continue fighting for education long after finishing school. “The teachers of Alaska don’t need me to give them...
Some Sitkans felt shaking Saturday afternoon as the first in a series of earthquakes struck west of Kruzof Island. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded eight earthquakes near Sitka over roughly a two-hour period on Saturday. The largest occurred...
