The City League basketball season kicked off with gameplay Monday evening at Blatchley Middle School. In the competitive division, Yuyo's took down Allen Marine 68-60, led by Xavier Gunderson with 12 points. In the same division, Marjo Vidad...

Seniors from both Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe high schools will be honored during regular season games this coming Friday and Saturday. With the regional tournament only a couple of weeks away, the Lady Braves and Lady Wolves will square off into two...

Swimmers from Sitka High tested their mettle against teams from across Southeast at a regular season meet at home, Friday and Saturday, taking a number of top finishes but falling just short of a team victory. In the boys races, Sitka came in...

Runners rounded out the cross country season at the state championship meet in Palmer on Saturday, but muddy, slippery trail conditions proved to be a significant obstacle to those on the course, slowing times and causing a number of falls in the...

Young basketball enthusiasts in Sitka won’t have to wait for March Madness to shoot hoops in a friendly competition, as the local Elks Lodge is restarting its free throw contest for kids 8 to 13, Saturday at Blatchley Middle School. “Kids are...

Nearing the end of the season, a number of runners from Mt. Edgecumbe High School earned spots in the upcoming state cross country meet after Saturday’s Region V race at home in Sitka. Many Mt. Edgecumbe runners ran new personal records Saturday,...

Runners from across Southeast converged on Sitka for Saturday’s Region V cross country race on the trails at the National Historical Park, where athletes vied for limited spots to qualify for the upcoming state championship. Sitka High won the...

Rugby is back after a multi-year hiatus for players of the sport in Sitka.  Local rugby enthusiast Shannon Cellan, who played with the Sitka Sockeyes Rugby team that was active until 2022, is starting up free, informal “touch rugby”...

A muddy, messy trail slowed cross country runners in their last regular season meet in Juneau on Saturday, but Sitka High took second place overall and the Wolves ran competitive times despite difficult conditions. Sitka junior Derek Wilson came...

Diving into the first swim meet of the year, Sitka High kept up with the competition and put up solid early-season times against swimmers from around Southeast. The Wolves and Lady Wolves took second place out of five teams in the water in Juneau,...

Competing over the weekend in Ketchikan, Sitka High took down the Kayhi Lady Kings in two close volleyball matches Friday and Saturday, before returning home to prepare for the jamboree that kicks off today at Sitka High. On Friday, the Kings won...

Thanks to its strong depth as a team, Sitka High's Lady Wolves placed first overall out of seven girls teams in a cross country meet Saturday at Ketchikan. As for the Sitka boys, they took third out of nine squads from across Southeast on the...

In the first rivalry volleyball match of the season, Sitka High’s Lady Wolves took down Mt. Edgecumbe High Tuesday night in three hard-fought sets in the Sitka High gym. The Wolves took an early lead in all three sets, but could never gain an...

Top runners from Sitka High stretched their legs on a hilly cross country course in Palmer on Saturday, with the girls taking 14th place out of 22 teams and the boys coming in 15th out of 32 in the mid-season invitational meet. First across the...

Running in an early-season cross country invitational meet in Palmer, Sitka High's Lady Wolves took 14th place out of 22 teams on the course, while Sitka's boys took 15th out of 32 squads, in an event that had hundreds of runners from across the...

A few years after diving back into karate following a long hiatus, Stacy Smith, a former Sitkan who now trains at Duane Swanson’s Sitka-based dojo from Anchorage, earned her Yondan fourth degree black belt in Uechi-Ryu karate late last...

Sun is in the forecast for what might be a mudless Mudball Classic softball tournament this weekend, with hundreds of players set to compete in the annual event and teams coming in from across Southeast Alaska. Local games begin 6 p.m. today on...

The Sitka High swim team started hitting the water for two-hour practices August 6, and is gearing up for a successful season this year, the coach said. “Some of them swim with the club and they’re in pretty decent shape, but about half of them...

Sitka High’s runners got into gear at the first cross country meet of the season over the weekend in Wrangell, putting down competitive times but coming up shy of top finishes. The Wolves took only their varsity runners to the meet, coach Shasta...

Wrangell’s Milk Run Classic on Saturday will draw seven boys and seven girls from Sitka High School to run a 5K race against other Southeast teams, marking the official start of the cross country season.  “This year is definitely a...