Sitka added 178 jobs and $4 million in wages from 2023 to 2024, with health care, seafood and the visitor industry representing half of the wages, a consultant reported Thursday. “Those three sectors fuel your economy,” Meilani Schijvens,...
In a recorded address at the Southeast Conference meeting in Sitka Thursday, Alaska’s delegate to the U.S. House, Rep. Nick Begich, praised the budget reconciliation bill passed by Congress, and its benefits for Alaska. “When I came to Congress...
For the first time in 15 years, young oysters are growing in Sitka-area waters at a modest farm tucked along the eastern shore of Krestof Sound. It consists of 600 small, floating cages strung along two lines; each cage holds about 120 oysters...
Much of Sawmill Creek Road lost power for about a half hour this morning, an outage apparently caused when a seabird flew into power lines and caused a short circuit, the city electric department said. The outage occurred at 8:15 a.m., affecting...
In a presentation at the Southeast Conference annual meeting Wednesday, Sen. Dan Sullivan spoke of the advantages to Alaska in the budget reconciliation bill the Senate passed in July. Speaking through a projected Zoom meeting, Sullivan referred...
Sitka Community Land Trust Director Randy Hughey explained at the Southeast Conference summit Wednesday how the trust model creates affordable housing and keeps the housing affordable. In an interview with the Sentinel later, he summed up his...
Rain or shine, Sitka will mark the opening of the new city-owned marine haulout and shipyard with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Gary Paxton Industrial Park. The first boat is scheduled to be hauled out as early as Monday,...
News about burgeoning cruise ship docks in Juneau and Klawock took the fore of an hour-long panel with visitor industry leaders at the Southeast Conference annual meeting in Harrigan Centennial Hall Tuesday. The six panelists, including Sitka's...
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski spoke Tuesday of her support for items in a recent federal spending package, while also stressing her support for Alaska development projects, public media, and the Alaska Marine Highway system. Murkowski, a member of the...
Prioritizing rural and tribal communities and obtaining user feedback are two goals U.S. Department of Transportation representatives highlighted in a Southeast Conference panel discussion Tuesday morning. Southcoast Region director...
Despite near-record job levels, and many successes across the Southeast Alaska economy, the region is losing working-age families due to such challenges as housing and child care, a consultant told delegates to the Southeast Conference this...
A long road may lie ahead for Southeast Alaskans seeking changes to the way guided sport fishing operators and businesses who offer unguided “bare boat” charters register to do business in this region. That was the takeaway from a three-hour...
More than 250 city, tribal government, nonprofit and business leaders were gathering in Sitka today for the opening of the 67th Southeast Conference annual economic summit Tuesday morning. Three days of presentations, discussions and work...
At a meeting next week, local pilots will hear a status update on the preferred design of the city seaplane base on Japonski Island that's scheduled for completion by 2028. The pilot stakeholder meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Harrigan Centennial...
Mock interviews, goal setting, conflict resolution and team building are on the agenda at the second annual Southeast Leadership Summit Sunday and Monday in Sitka. Chamber of Commerce director Rachel Roy said so far 70 "emerging leaders" of the...
Rep. Rebecca Himschoot’s office is inviting fishery stakeholders to join policy leaders Monday in a conversation about entry practices for guided charter fishing operators and unguided “bare boat” charter operators who comprise the "sport fish...
