Karen Johnson shovels her driveway this morning on Verstovia Avenue. Another two inches of snow fell overnight in Sitka. More snow is in the weekend forecast. (Sentinel Photo by JAMES POULSON)

After five years as Sitka's fire chief and a career in emergency response spanning most of his life, Craig Warren says he’s ready to retire. “I’ve had a good career, I have lifelong friends I’ve made from all over the country,” Warren said in an...

JUNEAU – State lawmakers continued to press education department leaders this week about lapses in the state’s oversight of Mt. Edgecumbe High School and the resultant stresses on the students, most of whom are Alaska Native from rural...

Fifth-grade musicians play on stage at the Performing Arts Center during their "Almost Spring" concert Tuesday night. Sitka High musicians will present their spring concert March 31 at the PAC. (Sentinel Photo by JAMES POULSON)

Ahmika Kluka fixes the nose of her bear snow sculpture in front of her Halibut Point Road home Tuesday afternoon. Kluka was inspired to sculpt the animal out of the pile of snow she shoveled from her driveway. More than a foot of snow fell over...

After a short question and answer session, the Assembly Tuesday night gave final approval to the hiring of Mike Hall as police chief. Hall has has been a lieutenant in the Sitka Police Department since September, after he was selected to advance...

The electric department reported two outages in the last 24 hours affecting different areas of town, but all power was restored by this afternoon. The first outage occurred 11:23 p.m. Tuesday when an operator mistakenly opened the wrong breaker...

Lights will dance on the audience in Odess Theater Saturday night as Ethan Vastola and Dominique Smith play melodic, electronic dance music beats and cast original, northern lights-inspired laser displays throughout their “Aurora EDM”...

Fireweed Dance Theatre performers Ella Colliver and Ella Branch take the stage Saturday at the Performing Arts Center during the dance company's 25th annual gala performance. Students from the Studio of Dance were joined on the program by guests from the New Archangel Dancers and the Aurora Dance Ensemble. The Fireweed Dance Guild produces "The Nutcracker" every other year.

Promotion of Sitka police Lt. Mike Hall to be chief of the department is on the agenda of tonight's regular meeting of the Sitka City and Borough Assembly. Also on the agenda is final approval of an ordinance to fund body-worn cameras for the...

Tlingit clan leaders L’eiwtú Éesh Herman Davis and Aanyáanáx Ray Wilson will receive honorary doctorates of laws from the University of Alaska Southeast during the May 3 spring commencement ceremony at UAS in Juneau. UAS announced the awards for...

The school district announced at 8:38 a.m. today that schools would be closed for the day because buses wouldn't be able to navigate the snow-clogged roads safely. Three hours earlier the district had announced that schools would be open but...

Band is an optional program for all fifth graders at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School – but you wouldn’t guess that by its participation level of more than 90% for all students. The “Almost Spring” concert Tuesday will showcase the young...

Domestic and sexual violence services are often associated with emergency shelter and crisis response, but in Sitka, the local non-profit Sitkans Against Family Violence is also working to prevent violence before it begins, through youth programs,...

Dale Williams shovels about a foot of snow from his car this afternoon. Heavy snowfall over the weekend and this morning caused schools in the district to be canceled for the second time this year.

Community members, scientists, tribal representatives and government officials from across Southeast Alaska met in Sitka Tuesday and Wednesday for an event focused on landslide planning, response and recovery. Over the two days of the Southeast...

Ace Hardware sales associate Sommer Cranston holds up a Rhode Island Red chick this morning at the Halibut Point Road store. Ace has carried on the True Value tradition of bringing in chicks to sell in Sitka which began more than a decade ago....

Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School third-grader Clayton Reynolds, 9, swaps stories with commercial fisherman Terry Perensovich today during a Fish to Schools rockfish taco lunch. Several fishermen who donate seafood to the program, which is organized by Sitka Conservation Society, were hosted at the annual "We Love Our Fishermen" lunch at the grade school....

Regulations and policies governing hunting and fishing on federal lands will be on the table at the Southeast Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory Council meeting in Juneau next week. The council is one of 10 in Alaska that provide...

When the lights come up on Fireweed Dance Theatre’s annual gala performance Saturday, you might feel like you’ve arrived on Broadway or the Big Top with a dance inspired by the film, “The Greatest Showman.” “There’s a ringmaster, a strongwoman, a...