The search for two men last seen Saturday night setting out in a skiff from Sitka for Camp Coogan Bay has been suspended, the Coast Guard announced this afternoon. The search was started Monday evening after the men, Josiah Bracken, 31, and Quinn...
The Sitka Planning Commission on Wednesday will consider the Sitka Dock Company’s request for a conditional use permit for a public transportation facility at 408 and 410 Oja Way. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Chris...
A search is under way for two boaters last heard from Friday night when they planned to head out from Sitka in a 14-foot skiff to a floathouse in Camp Coogan Bay, southeast of town, the Coast Guard said today. Sitka Police said friends of the men...
The Assembly at tonight’s meeting will consider on first reading a supplemental appropriation to cover a new Visit Sitka contract. Element Agency and Agnew::Beck, two statewide consulting companies with Sitka connections, submitted a joint bid to...
In a four and half hour meeting of the Mt. Edgecumbe Advisory Board on Thursday, several MEHS community members said they feel that the school’s current superintendent is being dishonest in talks about student life and enrollment at the...
Stories that “show the full breadth of human being, as a man” and that “counter stories to masculinity” will be told at Tuesday’s Sitka Tells Tales. The theme of the live storytelling event is “Boys Will be Boys: Stories of Challenging the...
A concert tonight will highlight ensemble skills built over the last semester by Sitka High jazz band, symphonic band, concert choir, concert band and a brass quintet. The free concert is open to the public, and starts at 7 p.m. at the Performing...
Saturday marks a busier time than usual for the Greater Sitka Arts Council, with both the Monthly Grind and Holiday Craft Fair on tap. The theme for the Grind is Winter Blues, which starts 7 p.m. at Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi. Those attending are...
Monday is the deadline to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace to be covered starting January 1, but some Sitkans are still weighing which plan -- if any -- to purchase. “We’ve been busy but today we’re...
Members of the Southeast Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory Council will meet at the Nolan Center in Wrangell beginning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursday to work on regulations and policies that affect rural Alaska residents who harvest fish...
Sitka Homeless Coalition will host a ribbon-cutting and open house from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at its Hítx'i Sáani (Little Houses) Community on Jarvis Street, a prelude to Monday when 11 unhoused people will move into the units built to provide...
Amazing feats and creative choreography -- on the ground and above it -- are in store for Sitkans at circus arts shows over the next two Saturdays. First up is the Sitka Cirque Performance Troupe’s annual Winter Showcase, 6 p.m. December 13,...
Tucked away at the top of Jarvis Street, Joel Hanson and a crew of regular volunteers have been preparing a half-acre community garden for the spring 2026 growing season. It will consist of more than 40 20x10-foot plots which come February will be...
Sitka can expect the current cold weather to persist through the week, with sun in the forecast followed by snow as early as Saturday night, says the National Weather Service. “There’s definitely still uncertainty,” said meteorologist Zoe Kaplan,...
Phil Burdick, Jude Pate and David Voluck, who were honored last week as Sitka Tribe of Alaska's first-ever "Tribal Allies of the Year," are tied together by lifelong friendships born with a college radio broadcast on a fateful evening in Moscow,...
