Scores of young musicians will gather for two concerts next week, where they will show their chops with a wide range of musical performances, all free to attend and held at the Performing Arts Center, Monday and Wednesday evenings. First will be...

The local fishing fleet, mariners and churches invite the public to the Blessing of the Fleet 2 p.m. Sunday at Crescent Harbor shelter. In keeping with long-standing tradition, the annual event is held to give thanks for the bountiful harvest of...

Jacob SamPayenna, subdeacon for St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, played the cathedral’s bells at 10 a.m. today as cruise ship passengers wandered down Lincoln Street for the first time this year.  In anticipation of a...

Twenty-seven students of the Sitka Fine Arts Camp’s Young Performers Theater are set to open their latest production, The Reluctant Dragon, on Friday at the Odess Theater.  The play follows the adventures of Widget and Hairytoes, two young...

After months of work to craft a balanced budget that cuts no teaching positions and keeps about three-quarters of a million dollars in reserve, the Sitka School Board passed their budget for fiscal year 2026, Wednesday evening. The budget is...

The two ballot proposition groups involved in the May 28 special election are holding a public forum event at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Harrigan Centennial Hall auditorium. Vote Yes On 1 for Sitka's Small Town Soul, a group campaigning for the...

Murkowski, Gillibrand Press Hegseth on DOD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Services   Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), member of the Senate Armed Services...

Aerial artists will fly through an enchanted forest and act out full-fledged fantastical fights in a Sitka Cirque show this weekend that features local performers of all ages playing characters from a mixed bag of classic fairy tales. The “Magic,...

Aircraft, boats and cutters are active near Sitka this week for U.S. Coast Guard Air Station's Sitka's annual Search and Rescue Exercise, which began under stormy skies Monday and continues through Thursday. Personnel with USCG, the U.S. Air...

Nine AmeriCorps volunteers serving in Sitka must leave their jobs by the end of the day today after Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service ordered the federal AmeriCorps program to terminate about $400 million in grants, affecting more than 1,000 programs...

Sitkans can weigh in on draft guidelines for the city's Tourism Best Management Practices plan during a public meeting of the Tourism Commission on Wednesday night.

After a wintertime hiatus, construction is again underway on small residential units to house Sitka’s homeless folks at a site at the northern end of Jarvis Street, and the project, which includes a dozen tiny apartments, among other facilities,...

With the deadline for the Sitka School District to submit a balanced budget to the city only days away, the School Board on Wednesday discussed details of a proposed budget that no longer includes reductions in teaching staff and retains...

High schoolers from across Alaska reported to Sitka High School at 7:15 a.m. today to develop and deliberate on a number of Alaska Association of Student Government Executive Board resolutions, and to rally for public education funding. Today is...

One hundred and thirty eight like-minded professionals convened this week for three days of networking, field trips and group work on projects for the Sustainable Southeast Partnership spring “retreat” in Harrigan Centennial Hall. Sustainable...

As the federal government continues to look for budget items to cut, Sitka’s 4-H program, which is operated by the nonprofit Sitka Conservation Society, received notice of the termination of a Department of Agriculture grant that supplies about...

Thirteen years ago, Palmer farmer Scott Robb set a world record with a 138-pound cabbage he brought to the Alaska State Fair.  Not long afterward, Palmer’s local visitor center dedicated a statue to the cabbage and the other colossal...

Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist Steve Bethune shot a bear on Andrew Hope Street early this morning, following reports of a destructive bear in the Indian River Subdivision. Police reported Saturday that a bear tore the door off a shed to get to...