About 20 people showed up Thursday evening at Centennial Hall for the city's open house meeting to get views about permissible levels of commercial guiding, outfitting and transportation activities on city-owned trails, parks and recreational...

A Guardian Air airplane with three aboard landed safely at Sitka Airport on Sunday after one of the plane's engines failed while en route to Sitka. Sitka Police Department received an automatic call at 11:37 a.m. Sunday reporting an aircraft...

About 150 professional and volunteer firefighters and emergency responders from around the state are in Sitka this week for the 2025 Alaska Fire Conference. Hosted by the Baranof Chapter of the Alaska State Firefighters Association, the meetings...

The Assembly voted 6-0 Tuesday to lease a 7,583-square-foot lot at the Gary Paxton Industrial Park for improved access to boat repair and fabrication businesses. The GPIP board recommended Assembly approval of the non-competitive lease to Pacific...

Sitka was under a high wind warning this afternoon, with sustained winds of 35 mph gusting to 60 mph and seas of more than 30 feet in the National Weather Service's forecast, brought on by a hurricane force low pressure system. Weather Service...

Five of the six candidates for the Assembly met Wednesday night for a Chamber of Commerce forum at the Southeast Resort that drew talks on the outlook of housing, child care, tourism, the workforce and other key issues for Sitka. About three...

Brave Heart Volunteers will host a fundraiser Saturday that features an auction, dinner and music but more importantly celebrates “community, compassion and creativity,” organizers said. The group's annual Buoy & Chair Auction launches at 6...

An open house on updates to the city's policy on commercial use of city recreational land will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at Harrigan Centennial Hall. During the open house, “we’ll overview the significant changes in the land use plan from 2025...

At its meeting Tuesday night, the Assembly distributed $45,000 to 10 nonprofit organizations applying for funds available in the city budget for the annual distribution. It was the last time Assembly members would go through the process of...

Early voting in the October 7 municipal election was off to a solid start with about 50 casting ballots on Monday, the first day it was available, the clerk’s office reports. Early voting runs 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9...

A low pressure system hit Elfin Cove like a tornado around 10:30 a.m. Monday morning, causing serious damage to at least five residences, and cutting off the small town’s boardwalk and trail system, electrical infrastructure and water lines, as...

The Assembly at tonight's regular meeting will distribute $45,000 in city funds to nonprofit organizations that applied for grants in the annual process. Other agenda items include supplemental appropriations, approval of the three-year...

Ahead of National Public Lands Day, friends of Sitka Trail Works on Saturday celebrated completion of the new, 33-foot-tall staircase at the Halibut Point Recreation Area that restores a trail connection between the north and south ends of the...

Fat Pothole Week is underway. The city is sponsoring a contest with a local twist on the popular Fat Bear Week, which celebrates the chunkiest brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. But instead of bears, potholes will be the focus....

Baranof Island Housing Authority is poised to add eight apartments to Sitka’s housing stock early next year, and 40 small parcels for development up Indian River by 2027, the BIHA director said in a presentation at the Southeast Conference annual...

Sitka added 178 jobs and $4 million in wages from 2023 to 2024, with health care, seafood and the visitor industry representing half of the wages, a consultant reported Thursday. “Those three sectors fuel your economy,” Meilani Schijvens,...

In a recorded address at the Southeast Conference meeting in Sitka Thursday, Alaska’s delegate to the U.S. House, Rep. Nick Begich, praised the budget reconciliation bill passed by Congress, and its benefits for Alaska. “When I came to Congress...

For the first time in 15 years, young oysters are growing in Sitka-area waters at a modest farm tucked along the eastern shore of Krestof Sound. It consists of 600 small, floating cages strung along two lines; each cage holds about 120 oysters...