Two of the three candidates for the Sitka School Board voiced their thoughts on such issues as budgeting, housing and child care at a public forum Wednesday evening hosted by the Sitka Chamber of Commerce at the Southeast Resort (formerly...
Steve Ramp, Isabel Platten, Alex McCarrel and Troy Tydingco putted past the Sitka breakwater at 3:30 a.m. last Thursday, en route to fishing grounds far off Cape Edgecumbe, with hopes of catching albacore tuna, a species that isn’t listed on the...
From “Whole Lotta Love” to “Stairway to Heaven,” and from “My Generation” to “Pinball Wizard,” two concerts this weekend will take Sitkans on a musical journey and pay tribute to two of the greatest rock bands of our time, Led Zepplin and The...
Two houses and a number of parked vehicles were damaged late Wednesday night by debris from a small landslide that fell from Cedar Heights Road down to Cascade Creek Road. No injuries were reported from the slide, which occurred at about 11:30...
The Assembly at its regular meeting Tuesday agreed to contract with the Sitka Legacy Foundation to administer the annual city nonprofit grants, beginning next year. The vote was 7-0 to negotiate a contract with the nonprofit community foundation,...
Local restaurateurs Cambria Goodwin and Luke Bruckert are preparing to open a new Campfire Kitchen restaurant inside Sitka’s Coliseum Theatre, and are drafting plans for a dining area in the auditorium where patrons could enjoy “dinner and a...
Each Southeast troll fisherman can harvest another 15 chinook salmon during a “limited harvest fishery" opening that’s set to begin Thursday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Monday. In the ten-day fishery, which is the third...
The city Sustainability Commission Monday approved draft comments to the Alaska Department of Transportation, asking that it continue allowing two electric vehicles to be carried on each sailing of the vessels in the state ferry system, and to...
City officials said more than 30 applications have been from received so far from residents seeking a subsidy for their monthly utility bills. The application period for the city program opened August 1, and the deadline to apply for up to $100 a...
An adjustment to the boundaries of a tidelands lease, a minor subdivision, and a minimum lot size variance were approved by the Planning Commission at its regular meeting Wednesday. Code regulations in the central business district were also...
More than half of Mt. Edgecumbe High School's seniors spent their sunny Sunday climbing Mt. Edgecumbe, the mountain they knew only as a viewscape across Sitka Sound from the state boarding school. For many, going on the annual senior 14-mile hike...
The school year has begun smoothly across the district, Superintendent Deidre Jenson reported at Wednesday’s School Board meeting, with enrollment slightly above projections and the new in-house food service doing well. At the start of the...
The new addition on the southeast end of the Sitka airport terminal is expected to be open for business Thursday, the city said in a news release today. “That’s if the move goes as planned,” said Melissa Lunas, city public and government...
Following months of nearly incessant rain, a ridge of high pressure air drove the dampness out of Southeast in early August, the National Weather Service says. The result was the onset of summery weather, dry and largely sunny days that the...
Wearing a wetsuit and snorkel and carrying his speargun, Jason Own emerged from the waters of Crescent Harbor Friday afternoon towing the 18-pound, 30-inch-long skipjack tuna he’d speared just moments before. Cheers erupted from the onlookers who...
