The Alaska Legislature has voted to uphold Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a bill that would have significantly increased the funding formula for Alaska’s K-12 public schools. Dunleavy vetoed House Bill 69 last week, citing cost concerns and the...

Sitka Community Orchestra, an inter-generational ensemble, is playing their annual concert at the Sitka Performing Arts Center on Friday night. Admission is free for the orchestra’s hour-long performance of spirited and captivating tunes that...

Sitka Assembly members ratified the city’s general fund and enterprise fund budgets for fiscal year 2026, passed an amendment to city code governing parks and recreation facilities, and approved the first reading of a lease for the budding Sitka...

Ballots are available, and voter registration is due by the end of the day Monday for Sitkans participating in the special municipal election scheduled for May 28. The city clerk’s office is now offering absentee in-person voting at City Hall,...

Mt. Edgecumbe High School superintendent Suzzuk Huntington will resign from her post at the close of the school year, she announced in an email to staff last week, as the school continues to face financial difficulties and may have to cut large...

The Sitka Assembly is set to vote on final approval of the city’s general fund budget and capital improvement plan for FY26, as well as its budget and plan for “enterprise funds” that would affect a suite of increases to the city’s utility...

Now that the Sitka Assembly has accepted a proposal from Highmark Marine LLC of Kodiak to operate the city’s new haulout at the Gary Paxton Industrial Park, locals are working with the GPIP board of directors to plan uses of adjacent lands and...

A conceptual plat to result in 53 lots at 600 Yaw Drive, a minor subdivision at NHN Ring Island, and a zoning text amendment to allow for onsite marijuana consumption facilities were approved by the Planning Commission during its regular meeting...

Hundreds gathered Saturday for the Sitka Native Education Program’s “50th Anniversary Celebration of Knowledge” that filled more than 12 hours with songs, speeches, gift distributions, meals, presentations and protocol in the form of a traditional...

Federal immigration officials were active in Sitka in early March and made one arrest here at that time, officials told the newspaper, but reports of increased law enforcement activity in town last week centered around a training event meant for...

Representatives with Safeguard Sitka’s Future – Vote No on 1, a ballot proposition group that opposes caps on cruise ship tourism, will be interfacing with the public inside the Sitka Sound Cruise Terminal on Saturday afternoon. Advocates will be...

The concrete whale slide at Crescent Park gets a pressure washing  Wednesday afternoon. City public works crews have been busy sprucing up Sitka’s public spaces in advance of the tourist season which gets underway April 29 with the scheduled...

After half a century of teaching Indigenous culture, language, song and dance to kids, the Sitka Native Education Program will host a 50th anniversary celebration Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Harrigan Centennial Hall to honor the work that...

While the Trump administration’s federal workforce reductions this week axed some AmeriCorps volunteer positions across the U.S., the ten volunteers in Sitka can stay on local schools and nonprofits, at least for today.  The longstanding...

A school budget proposal that would terminate up to four teaching positions while finding smaller savings at other points was up for discussion at a special budget work session held by the Sitka School Board Wednesday. As proposed, the budget...

REACH Home School student Ruby Schalow, 8, twists and pulls molten glass Monday as Linda Barker Olsen, a 16-year glass sculptor, supervises Monday at Wild Arts Gallery & Glass Studio on Lincoln Street. Barker Olsen's neice, the late Michelle Barker, opened the work space with her son Ryan Harris., who continues to make art at the studio.

For the second year running, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed an education funding bill on Thursday, citing a lack of policy changes he supported. House Bill 69 would have increased the base student allocation — the core of the state’s...

EDITOR'S NOTE: See related story this page on the AmeriCorps cutbacks as they affect Sitka. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Young volunteers who respond to natural disasters and help with community projects across the U.S. have been discharged as a...