While hunters are itching for the buck season to open Aug. 1, wildlife managers are eager to gather more data on how the harsh winter of 2025-26 affected the deer population around Sitka. In a recent interview with the Sentinel, area wildlife...

ANYTHING GOES - "Anything Goes" cast member Ethan Clark hands out craft activities to children at Sitka Public Library Thursday morning. A quartet of sailors in the Sitka Fine Arts Camp Musical Theater Camp production of the Cole Porter musical...

Two new candidates have filed to run for positions in the October 6 municipal election. JJ Carlson is running for reelection to the City and Borough of Assembly; Phil Burdick is running for another term on the Sitka School District. The filing...

The Three Sopranos, a trio made up of one student, her teacher, and her teacher’s teacher, will perform a benefit concert 7 p.m. Saturday, at the Odess Theater. All proceeds will benefit the North Pacific Hall restoration fund and the Sitka Fine...

COMMUNITY CLEANING - Outer Coast first year students Paul Duny, left, and Daveion Jasper scrub the brass plaque and concrete post at Pioneer Park this morning. Sitka AARP, Sitka Recreation Foundation, Sitka Parks and Rec Division and Outer Coast...

As the king fishing season comes to a close, sport fishers are reporting a low and slow harvest.   Recently, it has been taking sport fishers an average of 10 hours to catch one king salmon, reports Troy Tydingco, the Sitka-area...

Employers have a role to play in helping build a program to stabilize child care systems, but often need the framework first, the Sitka Chamber of Commerce was told Wednesday. Wednesday's presentation was the Chamber's second on child care...

The Parks and Recreation Committee voted Tuesday to send a letter to the Assembly recommending the approval of the allocation of $20,000 for the Sitka Recreation Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization that has contracted with Corvus...

At a work session on solutions to the child care shortaqge in Sitka Tuesday night, t the Assembly focused on possible sales tax options to raise the esimated $1 million annual cost. No vote was taken. but in the discussion at the well-attended...

BEACHCOMBED - Kristina Shenfelt, Sitka Sound Science Center field lead, left, and Ellie Seida, research technician, load a truck at Crescent Harbor with trash picked up along the shore of Krestoff Island and ferried to town Friday. The cleanup was...

Monday afternoon, 3-year-old Miles stood in the middle of a colorful parachute, laughing and jumping as his mother and two professional staff members rippled the cloth up and down around him. It was the first time for Miles at the Sitka...

DUCKS IN A ROW - Sitka Rotary Club President Ed McFadden checks through tubs of plastic ducks after Saturday's annual duck race at Granite Creek, while a child enjoys some quality time atop the flotable toys. A total of 3,056 ducks were dropped...

One day after the filing period opened to run in the October 6 municipal election, Kevin Mosher filed to run for mayor. He is the first candidate to file. Mosher is on the Assembly, with one year left to serve. Open seats in the fall election...

BEAR WATCH - A brown bear walks through a yard 5 a.m. today on Lake Street as seen in this stiill shot taken from a video. (Photo Provided)

The Assembly will hold a work session tonight to continue deliberation on a plan for supporting child care in Sitka. The meeting will start at 6 p.m. at Harrigan Centennial Hall, and will be open for public participation. The Assembly has...

A crowd of 125 runners took off Saturday to face Gavan Hill head on, and power through the rolling 7-mile traverse around Harbor Mountain for a total climb of 3,300 vertical feet in the 2026 Alpine Adventure Run.  Both the men’s and women’s...

A few days after the Assembly agreed to to invite city administrator finalist Jenny Alber to Sitka for an on-site visit, she advised the city she was no longer interested. “She was apologetic, but she said she had to pass on the opportunity,”...

Responding to the report of a fire at the downtown Sitka Hotel Friday night, a team of firefighters spent more than an hour searching for the origin of the blaze before locating it within the building's walls. Once the firefighters located the...

BEACH TIME- People and pets play on Sandy Beach this afternoon under mostly clear skies. More fair weather — including a high of 62 degrees on Saturday and a high of 64 degrees on Sunday — is in the forecast with lows in the 50s.

Sen. Bert Stedman said he was not particularly surprised to see the House vote down the Alaska LNG bill, and does not have high hopes for a third special session on the topic. “We were not successful in getting a compromise, so there was another...