A Sitka man narrowly escaped serious injury when gale-force winds early this morning pushed a large Sitka Spruce tree onto the roof of his home at 504 Charteris Street. Sam Skaggs told the Sentinel today he was in bed and sleeping through the...

Halloween fun and fright are in store for everyone this week, with classic events for costumed kids, shopping and dining specials, and a late-night adult “rave” Friday marking the height of “spooky season.” Festivities began in mid-October with a...

Sitka High School freshmen joined forces with Sitka Tribe of Alaska staff earlier this month to fight the spread of knotweed, a hyper-competitive invasive species that’s found along roadsides, in ditches, near streams, on beaches and in people’s...

The two one-act plays the Young Performers Theater puts on this weekend are likely to fill Odess Theater with laughter in different ways. In “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales,” it might be the opening number, called “Opening...

Blatchley Middle School has won a U.S. Department of Education award as a high-performing school based on its achievements in academics and other criteria. But the honor was somewhat bittersweet after the school learned the National Blue Ribbon...

Harrigan Centennial Hall auditorium was standing room only Monday night as more than 400 people gathered to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a state holiday observed on the second Monday of October to recognize Indigenous people and their...