The Assembly has set a work session for Thursday to discuss whether the upgrade of Lincoln Street should be a higher priority on the city's capital projects list, and whether other items should be …
A Sitka man, Adam J. Fondell, 38, was sentenced Tuesday to four years and six months, fined $10,000, and placed on five years probation on a Jan. 16 charge of violating conditions of probation by …
Brown bears have been active this week throughout Sitka, some calling extra attention. In one encounter on Monday, three bears pursued two dogs on the cross trail at Starrigavan, and injured one …
This coming winter, Sitkans can expect to see one ferry sailing weekly on the Alaska Marine Highway System, the state has announced in the proposed 2025-2026 winter schedule, which is currently open for public review. The ferries Columbia and...
Longtime soccer player Mikayla Smith is taking over leadership of Sitka Rush Soccer Club and preparing to open registration for the fall youth soccer season as former director Brock Vowell departs …
Fire consumed a steel-sided workshop structure in Venettis trailer court on Saturday evening. No one was injured, and no trailer homes were damaged in the fire, Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren said today. Emergency responders were...
Last week, Cindy Edwards became (probably) the first person to juggle pins on the beach at Kruzof Island. She’s learning in part to jazz up her unicycle routine for the Fourth of July parade next year, she said in an interview at the Backdoor,...
The Sitka-based Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust has received a huge boost from the Rasmuson Foundation to help restore rural and indigenous access to Alaska fisheries, the nonprofit announced recently. In a news release earlier this month, the...
A team of researchers based in New York is working to unearth history and chart the geological timeline of the region, and this weekend was back in Sitka to collect a core sample from the bottom of Swan Lake as part of a yearslong effort to...
The Assembly at its meeting Tuesday agreed that the city would prepare a Request for Qualifications soliciting offers to provide visitor marketing, and visitor services starting next year. The Chamber of Commerce, which held the Visit Sitka...
Public buses will carry Sitkans to and from Keet Gooshi Heen elementary Saturday for the annual Sheet'ká Ḵwáan Tribe/Sitka Tribe of Alaska picnic event featuring food, friendly competitions and community fun. The picnic draws many community...
With flowers in bloom and insects buzzing in Alaska’s brief summer season, a series of presentations on beekeeping will teach Sitkans the basics of bee care and pollination, as well as more advanced items around as bee products like honey and wax,...
Four hundred and sixty participating salmon trollers harvested some 44,000 total chinook in the July 1 summer king opener, marking record-low effort and harvest in the annual chinook retention period that lasted just four days this year. Alaska...
A group of up and coming cellists have spent the last few weeks practicing, performing and drawing inspiration from the Sitka landscape, mentors and each other. And at the Cellobration! concert Saturday, the seven musicians plan to showcase some...
A conductor failure near the end of Shotgun Alley caused a widespread electrical outage affecting most Sitka users beginning at about 5 p.m. Wednesday. Electric Department crews responded within minutes to the site on Shotgun Alley where...
