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...

A delegation from Sitka spent four days in Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan, marking the 50th anniversary of the sister city relationship between the two coastal cities. The jam-packed schedule October 12-15 included visits to sites important to the...

Three teens who lost their homes when the remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska earlier this month arrived in Sitka Friday to join the Mt. Edgecumbe High School student body. Mt. Edgecumbe is prepared to accept up to 32 students displaced...

The Assembly will consider whether to recommend the state allow up to three additional restaurant and eating place licenses, and look at adopting a commercial recreational land use plan at its meeting 6 p.m. Tuesday at Harrigan Centennial...

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 Sitka Police Department still has a number of vacancies but is moving in a positive direction to fill them, Interim Chief Chad Goeden told the Assembly at a recent meeting. “We have more vacancies than any department in the city,” he said...

The city's 2025 End-of-Season Tourism Survey is open for two more days, through Sunday. About 250 Sitkans had completed the survey as of late Thursday, Planning and Community Development Director Amy Ainslie said. The survey has 32 questions,...

The Oldest Tricks in the Book emerged as champions Thursday night in the Friends of Sitka Public Library's "Adult Book Challenge," a trivia competition inspired by the school-based reading incentive program called Battle of the Books. Team...

The papier-mâché glue is drying for various costumes, the lip sync acts are being rehearsed and the Harrigan Centennial Hall stage is being prepped for Danielle Kelly Soul Project to perform at "the biggest party of the year," the Stardust...

Dozens of hunters turned out to hear details and best practices meant to deter, defuse and survive bear encounters while in the field, at a presentation last week hosted by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. In a wide-ranging discussion that...

Xóots Elementary students and staff wore green on Wednesday to celebrate Kabuki Syndrome Awareness Day with Penny Farnham-Young, a kindergarten student who’s one of the few people in Alaska diagnosed with the rare genetic syndrome that affects...

A Sitka woman was arrested at her home Wednesday and charged with drug offenses involving fentanyl, methamphetamine and psilocybin mushrooms, Sitka police said today. Cheryl Marie Neyman-Felix, 64, was arraigned this afternoon, and bail was set...

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...

Organizers of the Sitkans Against Family Violence fundraiser this Sunday hope to raise not only funds but awareness about the services and prevention work the 45-year-old nonprofit provides the community. Doors at the ANB Founders Hall open at...

As harvesters are witnessing changes at Ḵunáa Shak.áayi (Redoubt Lake), biologists with Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the U.S. Forest Service are supporting research, collaborating with partners and harnessing new artificial intelligence technology to...

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...

During a trip to Sitka to celebrate Alaska Day, Click Bishop, a candidate for governor in the 2026 election, spoke Friday on his policy priorities, including education, ferries and energy. Bishop, 68, a Republican, represented west Fairbanks and...