Sitka’s lawmakers say today’s veto override marks progress in securing a permanent funding increase, but say it still leaves uncertainty to school districts in setting their budgets for 2025-26 school year. “Hopefully as we work through our...

The recently demolished Crescent Harbor restroom, located near the 700 block of Lincoln Street, will be replaced by the end of June, Project Manager Jason Hudson said.  The City of Sitka is working with McG Constructors, whose bid was about...

Eight seniors graduated from Pacific High School Saturday, May 17, as its 2025 graduating class.  The students entered the Naa Kahídi to “Pomp and Circumstance” and listened to speeches by Matt Groen and Phil Burdik.  Emma Thompson of...

A volunteer trail crew put in a day of hard labor maintaining and restoring the Lake Eva trail on the northeast corner of Baranof Island last week in an event coordinated by both Sitka Trail Works and Allen Marine Tours. The group of 40...

Sitka’s state representative says she’s “optimistic” that the votes are there to override the expected veto on the Legislature’s per-pupil education funding increase. “The most important thing in the next couple of days is whether House Bill 57...

By Sentinel Staff Seventy-two Sitka High School seniors will enter the school gymnasium at 7 p.m. tonight to become the school’s 95th graduating class. Class members will take their place on the stage to ‘‘Pomp and Circumstance,’’ performed by...

About a dozen Sitkans watch as the first boat is hauled out of Silver Bay at the new city haulout facility in the Gary Paxton Industrial Park Thursday afternoon. Sitka fisherman Eric Jordan was eager to have his troller, the F/V I Gotta, be the...

A civil lawsuit filed against Richard McGrath, a former Sitka Community Hospital doctor, will proceed, likely for years, as the plaintiff appeals a jury’s December finding that McGrath was not liable for alleged medical malpractice. On December 9...

Staffing reductions at Mt. Edgecumbe High School won’t cut as deep as initially anticipated by administrators, though the school is in the process of making cuts as the boarding school, which serves students from across Alaska, faces a seven-digit...

During a wide-reaching dinner meeting on Tuesday, leaders of Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the City and Borough of Sitka discussed the need to care for local clan houses, mitigate bear-human interactions, and collaborate on development projects...

This week, the Performing Arts Center will be transformed into the 20th-century playhouse of an eccentric actor, whose weekend of fun quickly goes awry as one of his guests is murdered.  Deftly maneuvering among hidden rooms, mounted swords...

New rules for resident sport fishermen in the federal waters of the Exclusive Economic Zone will feature in a public Alaska Department of Fish and Game “preseason meeting” on Wednesday night in Centennial Hall. For the first time, residents who...

All seven Assembly members zipped through a full agenda during a regular meeting Tuesday night that touched on tourism topics, city code regarding on-site marijuana consumption, the Holland America Line donation of a scoreboard for the city's...

A conditional use permit for a short-term rental at 115 Anna Drive was approved unanimously at Wednesday’s Planning Commission meeting.  The commission also heard the 2024 annual short-term rental report and continued its discussion of...

The Sentinel received the following press release after we had gone to print today.