A packed Town Hall meeting held Tuesday evening saw a passionate debate over the future of cruise tourism in Sitka, as two opposing advocacy groups hashed out the potential impacts of increased tourism – or a proposed cap on visitor numbers – on...

Kaxátjaa Hít, the Kiks.ádi clan house at 203 Kaagwaantaan Street that had been slated for demolition, is now owned by Katlian Collective, a nonprofit organization with a mission to restore and sustain the clan houses and cultural heritage of...

Sitka clergy members and Southeast Alaska Women in Fisheries members carry baskets and buckets of flowers to Sitka Harbor Depertment workers to place at sea during the Blessing of the Fleet ceremony at Crescent Harbor Sunday.

Xóots Elementary School first-grader Nico Chavarillo-Groen, 7, holds up a sign as classmates cheer on classmates releasing schools of pink and chum salmon smolt in front of the SJ Hatchery this morning. The Sitka Sound Science Center had help from...

Jacob SamPayenna, subdeacon for St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, played the cathedral’s bells at 10 a.m. today as cruise ship passengers wandered down Lincoln Street for the first time this year.  In anticipation of a...

Aerial artists will fly through an enchanted forest and act out full-fledged fantastical fights in a Sitka Cirque show this weekend that features local performers of all ages playing characters from a mixed bag of classic fairy tales. The “Magic,...

After a wintertime hiatus, construction is again underway on small residential units to house Sitka’s homeless folks at a site at the northern end of Jarvis Street, and the project, which includes a dozen tiny apartments, among other facilities,...

High schoolers from across Alaska reported to Sitka High School at 7:15 a.m. today to develop and deliberate on a number of Alaska Association of Student Government Executive Board resolutions, and to rally for public education funding. Today is...

One hundred and thirty eight like-minded professionals convened this week for three days of networking, field trips and group work on projects for the Sustainable Southeast Partnership spring “retreat” in Harrigan Centennial Hall. Sustainable...

The concrete whale slide at Crescent Park gets a pressure washing  Wednesday afternoon. City public works crews have been busy sprucing up Sitka’s public spaces in advance of the tourist season which gets underway April 29 with the scheduled...

REACH Home School student Ruby Schalow, 8, twists and pulls molten glass Monday as Linda Barker Olsen, a 16-year glass sculptor, supervises Monday at Wild Arts Gallery & Glass Studio on Lincoln Street. Barker Olsen's neice, the late Michelle Barker, opened the work space with her son Ryan Harris., who continues to make art at the studio.

Sitka commercial fisherman Matt Lawrie gets a hug from a second grader this morning during a Fish to Schools program lunch. The program, coordinated by Sitka Conservation Society, provides salmon and other seafood donated by fishermen and...

Kaylen Lozano, right, takes a photo of kids sitting with the Easter Bunny – Kaela Robbins, 7, and Rehana Famini, 9, and Amara Karina, 8 months – during the Rainy Day Bazaar Saturday at Harrigan Centennial Hall. The bazaar was sponsored by the U.S....

Volunteers Elizabeth Bagley, left, and Kevin Knox clean equipment at the Community Playground near Crescent Harbor Saturday morning. The playground, built in 2016 and designed by Anderson Land Planning, is the first ADA-compliant playground in...

ANB Harbor is obscured by snow this morning. Sitka saw several snow flurries this morning with no snow accumulation. There is a 20 percent chance of more flurries in the forecast for Saturday before rain returns. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

After decades of working as a veterinary technician at clinics in Alaska, across the country and one overseas, April Wheldon has taken up the Animal Control Officer position in Sitka, filling a post left vacant for months following the resignation...