More than a dozen parents of Mt. Edgecumbe High School students shared concerns with the MEHS Advisory Board on Thursday regarding changes in staffing, academics, extracurriculars and residential life at the state-run boarding school. Parents’...

With the swearing in of the Keystone Kops on Sunday, the Alaska Day Festival is officially under way. The schedule includes a number of official events organized by the Alaska Day Festival committee, but the week also includes a number of...

Absentee and questioned ballots counted on Friday didn't change the outcome of the October 7 municipal election, leaving Katie Riley and Thor Christianson as the top vote-getters in the Assembly race. With only 86 ballots to count Friday...

A driver speeding down Katlian Street early Saturday morning crashed into a telephone pole then fled on foot, Sitka Police said today. The suspected driver, a 32-year-old man from Virginia, apparently was not injured. The vehicle, a 2002 Recon...

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...

Alaska Day Festival events begin this weekend with a theme that pays tribute to the 100-year anniversary of the Iditarod, “Mushers & Medicine: The Serum Run.” “It’s a different theme; it’s not Sitka focused, it’s an event significant to the...

How did tourism-related traffic affect noise pollution, emissions, and your sense of safety in Sitka this summer? How much more or less did you go downtown on larger cruise ship days? Should Lincoln Street remain open to cars on all cruise ship...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day will be observed Monday with a fish dinner and performances by many local dance groups at a public event Outer Coast College is putting on at Harrigan Centennial Hall beginning at 5 p.m. The celebration is open to...

A delegation from Sitka is headed to Japan to mark and honor the 50th anniversary of Sitka’s sister city relationship next week with Nemuro, a city on the island of Hokkaido. Representatives from Nemuro invited Sitka officials, Mayor Steven...

EDITOR's NOTE: The Gormans of Sitka are bound for Thailand to resume their humanitarian work on the Burma/Thai border. In this dispatch Mark Gorman relates his expereince with travel industry customer service on the far side of the world. Nancy...

With a little over three weeks to go before the deadline, about 90 households have applied for help through the city’s utility subsidization program. Applications for the subsidy of up to $100 per month will be accepted through Oct. 31, the city...

A curated selection of films, touching on topics from journalism in Russia to longline fishing in Alaska, will come to big screens around town this weekend in the state’s first showing of the  American Documentary Film and Animation Festival,...

Voters in Sitka’s municipal election Tuesday handed a decisive win to Katie Riley for Assembly, and soundly rejected Proposition 2, which would have required sponsors of future initiative petitions to pay for a detailed economic study. Ballot...

BULLETIN - With all votes counted from Sitka's two precincts on election day today and in early voting, Katie Riley was the clear winner in the race for a seat on the City and Borough Assembly, but the contest for the other seat was too close to...

Election workers reported a “steady” turnout of voters at the two polling stations in Harrigan Centennial Hall today, on a clear-blue-sky Election Day. On the ballot in the regular municipal election are six candidates for two seats on the...

The Sitka High concert season opens Wednesday with a program of vocal and instrumental performances in styles ranging from jazz to contemporary and classical. “It’s our first performance of the school year, just six weeks in, so it gives us a...