Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren spent hours Tuesday evening monitoring the ongoing reports of the possible effect on Sitka from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the sparsely populated Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's far...
Austin Cranford on Tuesday became the first candidate to file for Assembly in the October 7 municipal election. This will be the third time in three years that he has been an candidate for Assembly. “When we have issues that continue to...
Sitka experienced two widespread electrical outages this month, each lasting about 30 minutes and affecting most homes and businesses, with the exception of the core downtown area. Causes of the two power outages are unrelated, and are being...
King salmon fishing is back on for nonresident sport anglers in Southeast Alaska, effective Monday, Aug. 4, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced. Chinook retention has been closed since July 7 for nonresidents fishing in...
Fraudulent emails imitating the City and Borough of Sitka and requesting payment of thousands of dollars via wire transfer seem to be targeting applicants filing with the Planning Commission, Planning and Community Development Director Amy Ainslie...
Alaska State Troopers said today the woman who died when a small boat overturned near Sitka on July 20 was Meichen Plumhoff, 35, of Sitka. Plumhoff was missing immediately after the accident, …
It takes two strands of cedar bark, separate but connected at the end, to weave a rose. This was the metaphor the Sitka Sound Science Center used in a March workshop for visiting scientists to represent its mission of championing both...
Cooling down from a Zumba class in the Blatchley Middle School gym on Friday evening, a dozen young adults lunged to the tune of Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin’ Bout You." “The bass goes overtime in this song,” instructor Harper Glazer said as the gym’s...
A display at a Sitka historical site referencing mistreatment of Alaska Natives by missionaries has been flagged as part of President Donald Trump's demand that national park facilities remove “improper ideology,” The Washington Post reported on...
Sitka’s interim police chief Chad Goeden wants to meet you and hear your concerns, priorities and ideas for the Police Department at a public engagement event on Friday at Harrigan Centennial Hall. “Where do you want to see your police department...
The annual drive for donations of locally caught seafood for school lunches will launch next week as the Fish to Schools program gets underway for the coming school year. A cooperative nonprofit program, Fish to Schools is organized by the Sitka...
The Assembly’s unanimous vote this week to keep Visit Sitka operated by the Chamber of Commerce gives the Chamber the “go” on planning for the annual meeting of the Southeast Conference and other visitor projects, Chamber director Rachel Roy said...
Island Institute co-founder and longtime director Carolyn Servid is visiting Sitka this week to shepherd a book by former Institute writer-in-residence Jerry Martien. Martien, of Humboldt Bay, CA, also is in Sitka, where he will give a reading...
Alaska Wildlife Troopers said today that they are conducting a death investigation into the boating fatality that occurred on July 20. "The investigation is active and ongoing," Troopers said in the announcement. The Coast Guard has said that a...
For the next 10 months or so, itʼll be the task of artist Nicholas Galanin and his three apprentices to turn a 25-foot red cedar log into a Kiks.ádi totem pole, using only hand tools, some of which they made themselves. Galanin was...
Two concerts this weekend will give Sitkans a taste of high-quality trumpet performance, as students and renowned professionals here this week for the Ictus International Trumpet Seminar take the stage. The first concert, at 7 p.m. Friday at St....
The Assembly at its Tuesday meeting voted unanimously to place a charter amendment proposition on the Oct. 7 city election ballot. If approved by voters, the proposition would allow funds dedicated to the hospital to be used for athletic and...
