By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Alaska will remain one of two states without a cabinet-level Department of Agriculture, at least for the time being. On Wednesday, the Alaska Legislature voted …
By CORINNE SMITH Alaska Beacon A crowd of over 150 Alaskans from across the state gathered on the steps of the Alaska State Capitol on Wednesday to rally and advocate for people with …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon Membership on the Alaska Board of Fisheries would be restructured to guarantee representation for the state’s different fishing sectors, under a bill pending in …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer In a brief special meeting Tuesday, the Assembly voted 6-0 to approve an ordinance on first reading setting May 28 as the date …
By Sentinel Staff Silver Bay Seafoods will be acquiring an interest in OBI Seafoods, and managing all OBI facilities and operations including plants in Southeast, …
By Sentinel Staff Silver Bay Seafoods will be acquiring an interest in OBI Seafoods, and managing all OBI facilities and operations including plants in Southeast, …
By CORINNE SMITH Alaska Beacon U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, encouraged members of the Alaska Legislature – and the public – to work together to get things done, despite major uncertainties …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer City clerk Sara Peterson said today that after a second legal review she has changed the date for a special election on cruise ship passenger limits, …
GARLAND KENNEDY Sentinel Staff Writer Working from boats and planes, Fish and Game biologists have started their annual search of Sitka Sound for signs of herring for the annual commercial sac …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives is asking Congress to fix a problem with a program that pays money to rural school districts affected by the decline of the timber …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives is backing the preservation of a multibillion-dollar federal aid program that subsidizes phone and …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer GCI wrapped up emergency maintenance on the undersea fiberoptic cable to Sitka early today, reporting that all internet and communications services have …
By CATHY LI For the Sentinel A conditional use permit for a short-term rental at 1972 Halibut Point Road was approved and a zoning variance to increase the maximum …
By Sentinel Staff The family of Louis Minard invites the community to commemorate his service as a World War II Tlingit Code Talker and his award of a Congressional Medal of Recognition, 4-6 p.m. …
By CORINNE SMITH Alaska Beacon Alaska has the fifth-highest rate of gun deaths in the nation, with an average of 175 people dying each year by gun, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to kill almost 200 brown bears in order to boost a struggling caribou herd violated due process and was …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Neither an Alaska free-speech law nor the First Amendment protect a former North Slope Borough principal fired for making a derogatory version of the local …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer Sitka city clerk Sara Peterson said today she has certified that a sufficient number of signatures has been submitted on a cruise ship limit initiative petition …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer One of the acts at Saturday’s Original Artist Grind will celebrate fresh air on a winter’s night. Another is the result of a collaboration by …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Federal fisheries managers did not mishandle trawl fishing rules amid Alaska’s ongoing salmon subsistence crisis, a federal judge in …