Commitments to healthier eating and fitness consistently rank in the top 5 on the list of New Year’s resolutions in the U.S., a trend observed in Sitka by local fitness and nutrition experts. But it’s important to avoid common pitfalls to make...
City maintenance staff members are tackling a problem that came up with the escalator at the Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport. The escalator — the first one in Sitka — provides access to the passenger boarding area on the second story of the...
Proposals to change how the state manages hunting and trapping of deer, bear, wolves, elk, moose, beavers, migratory birds and other Southeast Alaska animals will be considered when the Alaska Board of Game meets in Wrangell, January 23-27. The...
Sitka Fine Arts Camp started off the new year right, filling up about half of the available spots for the four summer camps in the first day. As usual, a rush of signups came in immediately after January 1 arrived and continued throughout the...
Sitka School Board is heading into the budget-planning season with public outreach plans and anticipated challenges during this Legislative session, the Assembly was told last week. Phil Burdick, School Board president, updated the Assembly at...
Sixty years ago the center of Sitka was a wasteland of smoldering ruins. On Sunday, January 2, 1966, St. Michael’s Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church and buildings housing 17 businesses and more than 50 apartments and rental units in downtown Sitka...
Ramshackle Cabaret at Odess Theater tonight is offering glimmers of joy and things you won’t see at the Grind, organizers Freddie Charbonneau and Allycia Witherspoon say. From burlesque to risqué comedy, the two renditions of “New Year’s...
The Assembly wrapped up its regular business in short order at its last meeting of 2025, approving funding for a Visit Sitka contract and Phase II of the airport renovation project. But members continued meeting for almost an hour in executive...
In 2025, Sitka saw growth and progress -- but also questioned it. The opening of the new airport terminal, complete with Sitka’s first escalator, the haul out of the first vessel at the city’s new boatyard, construction of the new Mt. Edgecumbe...
A fire at 411 Hollywood Way was put out within minutes this morning, but one person was taken to Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center with unknown injuries, the fire department said. The fire started from a couch that was pressed against a baseboard...
The Assembly will close out its year tonight with an agenda that includes final approval of supplemental funding for the new Visit Sitka contractor and the airport terminal. Both items passed on first reading at the December 16 meeting. Also on...
In a December Skills Builder series held by the Chamber of Commerce, Roger Hames, president of the Hames Corporation, offered advice to business owners and shared an emotional reflection of his times in the family business. Hames Corporation...
The Department of Fish and Game has announced a 35,015-ton guideline harvest level and a forecast average weight of 156 grams, for the 2026 Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. The GHL is based on a 15% harvest rate of an estimated 233,433 tons...
Sitka’s cold weather advisory is expected to lift tonight, with warmer temperatures and snowfall on Christmas Day, the National Weather Service says. After a siege of low temperatures in the teens and even below over the past several days that...
Twenty-five people marked National Homeless Persons Memorial Day and winter solstice on Sunday by running or walking a 5K through Totem Park under freezing cold, clear skies to raise funds for the nonprofit Sitka Homeless...
