GARLAND KENNEDY Sentinel Staff Writer Working from boats and planes, Fish and Game biologists have started their annual search of Sitka Sound for signs of herring for the annual commercial sac …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives is asking Congress to fix a problem with a program that pays money to rural school districts affected by the decline of the timber …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives is backing the preservation of a multibillion-dollar federal aid program that subsidizes phone and …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer GCI wrapped up emergency maintenance on the undersea fiberoptic cable to Sitka early today, reporting that all internet and communications services have …
By CATHY LI For the Sentinel A conditional use permit for a short-term rental at 1972 Halibut Point Road was approved and a zoning variance to increase the maximum …
By Sentinel Staff The family of Louis Minard invites the community to commemorate his service as a World War II Tlingit Code Talker and his award of a Congressional Medal of Recognition, 4-6 p.m. …
By CORINNE SMITH Alaska Beacon Alaska has the fifth-highest rate of gun deaths in the nation, with an average of 175 people dying each year by gun, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to kill almost 200 brown bears in order to boost a struggling caribou herd violated due process and was …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Neither an Alaska free-speech law nor the First Amendment protect a former North Slope Borough principal fired for making a derogatory version of the local …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer Sitka city clerk Sara Peterson said today she has certified that a sufficient number of signatures has been submitted on a cruise ship limit initiative petition …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer One of the acts at Saturday’s Original Artist Grind will celebrate fresh air on a winter’s night. Another is the result of a collaboration by …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Federal fisheries managers did not mishandle trawl fishing rules amid Alaska’s ongoing salmon subsistence crisis, a federal judge in …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The government of British Columbia filed legislation Thursday that would permit the province to levy tolls on vehicles between the Lower 48 and Alaska. The bill, …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon Alaska regulators have rejected a permit application for a controversial gold-dredging project near Nome after determining that the plan is riddled with …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer Increases in anticipated property tax revenues, reduced legal fees, and increased income from the Blatchley pool helped turn a deficit into a surplus in …
GARLAND KENNEDY Sentinel Staff Writer A month after the mass firing of probationary workers with the U.S. Forest Service, the Department of Agriculture issued a temporary stay on the terminations …
By CORRINE SMITH Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that is aimed at adding $275 million to fund public schools starting this summer. The House spent long …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The state of Alaska is still facing a significant budget deficit despite a revised state revenue forecast published Wednesday by the Alaska Department of …
SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer It took the Assembly about an hour to wrap up business at Tuesday night's regular meeting, rejecting a water purchase offer from Global Hydration LLC, and …
By Sentinel Staff An outage of the GCI network now will start early Thursday, the company said today. Megan Webb, senior director of corporate communications, said GCI customers in Sitka will …