By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich urged supporters last Monday to vote early and lock in their votes. He followed his own advice last …
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE (AP) — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and …
Starbard Chosen New Alaska Writer Laureate Vera Starbard, T’set Kwei, has been named 2024-2026 Alaska State Writer Laureate by the Alaska State Council on the Arts, in partnership with the …
By GARLAND KENNEDY Sentinel Staff Writer A brown bear and one of her two cubs were shot and killed by a Sitka resident early Thursday after the animals entered into a storage building in …
By SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer This year’s Stardust Ball – a decades-old tradition around Halloween and Sitka’s largest dance and costume party for ages 21 and up – kicks off …
Sitka Woman’s Club building has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, Alaska State Historian Katie Ringsmuth has announced. The new listing made the …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon At the Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention last week, Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski told reporters that she is endorsing Democratic Rep. Mary …
By MARK THIESSEN The Associated Press ANCHORAGE (AP) — On a desolate slab of island tundra in western Alaska, a resident of Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person …
By Sentinel Staff Keoki R.K. Tafaoialii, 37, was indicted Oct. 17 on two counts of terroristic threatening in the second degree. The state has issued a $20,000 warrant for his arrest. In the …
Climate Connection: Fresh Water as a Planetary Boundary Who can doubt that the water cycle has been upset to the point that we can no longer assume safety? The hydrologic cycle consists of the …
By GARLAND KENNEDY Sentinel Staff Writer At a special meeting Wednesday, the Sitka School Board appointed Paul Rioux to fill a vacant seat on the five-member body. Rioux, who …
By SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer The Assembly Tuesday night approved $9 million in “contingent grant funding” and an additional $300,000 from city working capital for Phase …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon In Alaska’s U.S. House election, few things come up more frequently than the status of the state’s largest mining and drilling projects. In …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The board of the state-owned Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority voted unanimously Wednesday to spend up to $20 million to prepare and …
By CLAIRE STREMPLE Alaska Beacon Alaska has joined a growing number of states that are considering cellphone restrictions in schools. Alaska’s Board of Education and Early …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon Four decades ago, in days before the internet and automatic voter registration, Alaska Natives turned out to vote at high levels. That …
STA to Hold Candidate Event Sitka Tribe of Alaska will host a tribal council election public candidate forum 7-8:45 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Two candidates have …
By SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer The Assembly at its regular meeting Tuesday voted to postpone until the next regular meeting a decision on adopting a memorandum of …
By Sentinel Staff Sitka Tribe of Alaska will host a public forum Monday, Oct. 28, for the two candidates running for Tribal Council chairman and seven running for four seats on the council in the …
By Sentinel Staff Tuesday evening at the Blatchley gymnasium, Hard Rock Construction garnered a 77-68 victory over Allen Marine in a recreational division City League basketball …