MOLDING YOUTH - Mount Edgecumbe Preschooler Isla Dunn is all smiles as she sits in a tub of Jello Tuesday outside the preschool. The annual Jello day is a long tradition at the preschool as summer break approaches.

Math and science meld with Tlingit literature and marine navigation skills in the seventh-grade Native navigation unit that retired teacher Patty Dick leads each spring along with teachers from Blatchley Middle School and the Sitka Native...

The Sitka Alaska Permanent Charitable Trust has awarded $93,763 in grants to 18 Sitka educational institutions and community betterment nonprofits. Awards fron the 2025 earnings of the charitable trust's $2.75 million trust fund were announced...

Over the past week or so Sitkans have found a five-page document in their mailboxes, the city's annual report on the quality of Sitka's drinking water. Overall, it indicates that the water as it comes into their kitchens and bathrooms is of high...

HATS OFF – Sitka High School graduates toss their mortarboards into the air during commencement exercises Monday night in the school gymnasium. Hundreds of Sitkans turned out for the graduation ceremony for 73 seniors. Following the program graduates were driven around town in a parade that led to UAS Sitka Campus. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

Sitka High School will hold its 96th graduation commencement 7 p.m. tonight, with 73 seniors crossing the gymnasium floor to receive their diplomas before heading off to colleges, careers and new adventures. Class members will take their place on...

A Sitka man was arrested Saturday night after a 25-year-old man was stabbed four times in the neck in a downtown restaurant, police said today. Gilbert R. Sam Jr., 37, was charged with assault in the first degree after the stabbing, at Mangiare...

The possible measles case reported in Sitka last week was not measles, the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium announced Sunday.  All laboratory testing “has come back negative, and there are currently no reported measles cases in...

At the end of last week’s Assembly meeting, City Attorney Rachel Jones updated members about civil lawsuits against the city that had been dismissed in the last month. Those include Austin Cranford v. the City and Borough of Sitka, et al....

Repairs to the Crescent Harbor high-load dock and the Japonski Island work float are finished and the structures are back in use, Harbor Master Brandon Calhoun told the Assembly Tuesday, And city public and government relations manager Melissa...

No new information was available by press time today about the possible measles case that prompted the Sitka Medical Center clinic at 700 Katlian Street to close its doors midday Thursday. Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium spokesperson...

Students at Keet Gooshi Heen elementary school are putting the finishing touches on a batch of 21 “bird nest boxes” that kids in other schools, along with adult woodworkers and AmeriCorps volunteers, are building to house birds visiting...

Finishers in the 42nd annual Julie Hughes Triathlon on Saturday will be rewarded with sliced oranges and carrot cake, and the satisfaction of completing one of Sitka’s most enduring athletic traditions.  “It’s a fun community event, that’s...

TORCH RUN - Alaska Public Safety Academy cadets and others run on Japonski Island Saturday during the annual Special Olympics Torch Run and fund drive. Organizers said the 5K run supports athletes with intellectual disabilities and fuels local...

SALMON RELEASE - Venus Ford picks up a plastic tank filled with a pair of salmon smolt during Sitka Sound Science Center's annual Salmon Release Party May 8. Scores of Sitka families and individuals lined up to carry baby salmon to the shore...

Workers with K&E Excavating extend the riprap near the foot of the O'Connell Bridge this morning. The work is part of the second phase of the Sea Walk project which includes the section from the Public Library to the O'Connell Lightering...

Sitka Medical Center at 700 Katlian Street closed its doors this afternoon after receiving a patient who exhibited symptoms associated with measles, a SEARHC official said today. Those inside the Sitka Medical Center were kept there this...

A professional study commissioned by the Assembly has confirmed the child care challenges parents, providers and employers face, and provided options for solutions. Blue Shibler, executive director of the Southeast Childhood Collective, presented...

New cedar pilings and joists are holding up the Sitka Woman’s Club “cottage by the sea,” thanks to an Alaska Historic Preservation Fund grant that is meant to protect the 1895 building, and help the Woman’s Club grow. The club has been caring for...