By CLAIRE STREMPLE Alaska Beacon A late-session attempt to salvage a proposal that would revive public employee pensions in Alaska died on Tuesday. A simple bill aimed at attracting and …
Life Celebration For Carl Peterson The family of Carl Peterson, 85, will have a celebration of his life 2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at 112 Cascade Creek Road. Friends of Carl and his family are …
By SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer The Alaska Department of Education is taking public comments about the planned sale of Stratton Library, the library for Sheldon Jackson College, …
By SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer Sitka’s pent-up demand for swim lessons was in full evidence on Monday, as the 64 spaces for the city’s second summer swim session filled in …
By CLAIRE STREMPLE Alaska Beacon Members of the Alaska Senate approved a bill that would increase the penalties for damaging or defacing property owned by religious organizations and …
Robin Klanott, 61 Dies in Anchorage Longtime Sitka resident Robin Klanott passed away at Anchorage Regional Hospital on May 10. She was 61. An obit will be published later in the …
By SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer The Assembly is winding up work on the city budgets for fiscal year 2025, which are on the agenda for approval as ordinances at Tuesday …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Alaska state lawmakers are preparing for a final vote on a bill that would eliminate the requirement that many public notices be published in local …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon The Alaska House of Representatives voted 22-18 late Sunday to ban transgender girls from girls’ school sports teams by limiting access to girls whose …
By CLAIRE STREMPLE Alaska Beacon Alaska lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to support a federal proposal that would investigate and document the forced assimilation of American Indian, Alaska …
Native Artist Residency Program at SJ Museum Sheldon Jackson Museum has announced the participants for its Alaska Native Artist Residency Program this summer. Selected from a pool of …
By SHANNON HAUGLAND Sentinel Staff Writer The Assembly voted 6-0 at a special meeting Thursday to schedule a community meet and greet and an in-person interview with Fairbanks attorney …
By Sentinel Staff Sitka Police said today that officers responding to a report of a man found unresponsive on a path near the Hames Center Thursday afternoon found that the man was …
By GARLAND KENNEDY Sentinel Staff Writer A week and a half after passing an initial budget for fiscal year 2025, the Sitka School Board held a special meeting Thursday to approve …
Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the U.S. Forest Service, Sitka Ranger District, signed a memorandum of understanding last week that identifies common goals and documents cooperation between the parties to …
By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon Members of the Alaska Senate have killed, at least temporarily, a plan to end a tax policy worth more than $100 million for one of the state’s largest oil …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon What in Alaska counts as a village? When it comes to state money for drinking water improvements, the definition can be fraught. In a close vote, the …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon The regional corporation owned by the Iñupiat people of Northwest Alaska said Wednesday it is severing its ties to the Ambler Access Project, the …
By CLAIRE STREMPLE Alaska Beacon The Alaska Supreme Court proposed hearing the state’s appeal to a court case that struck down key components of its correspondence school program …
By ANDREW KITCHENMAN Alaska Beacon The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. board of trustees is considering changes to the policies it uses to govern itself in the wake of its top investment officer …