This week, the Performing Arts Center will be transformed into the 20th-century playhouse of an eccentric actor, whose weekend of fun quickly goes awry as one of his guests is murdered.  Deftly maneuvering among hidden rooms, mounted swords...

The Sentinel received the following press release after we had gone to print today.

By Sentinel Staff Eighty-four Mt. Edgecumbe High School seniors walked across the stage this morning to receive their diplomas in a graduation ceremony held at the school field house.  The class of 2025 chose Michael Mahoney as its...

At a brief meeting of the Sitka School board Wednesday evening, kept short by the near universal wish of board members and attendees to be at the middle and high school pops concert, Superintendent Deidre Jenson said the district is “not out of...

As part of the nationwide axing of the National Endowment for the Arts, Sitka Fine Arts Camp lost a grant intended to be used to pay staff this summer, and although the organization will be able to avoid immediate cuts by drawing into its fiscal...

Scores of young musicians will gather for two concerts next week, where they will show their chops with a wide range of musical performances, all free to attend and held at the Performing Arts Center, Monday and Wednesday evenings. First will be...

With the deadline for the Sitka School District to submit a balanced budget to the city only days away, the School Board on Wednesday discussed details of a proposed budget that no longer includes reductions in teaching staff and retains...

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...

As the federal government continues to look for budget items to cut, Sitka’s 4-H program, which is operated by the nonprofit Sitka Conservation Society, received notice of the termination of a Department of Agriculture grant that supplies about...

The Alaska Legislature has voted to uphold Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a bill that would have significantly increased the funding formula for Alaska’s K-12 public schools. Dunleavy vetoed House Bill 69 last week, citing cost concerns and the...

Mt. Edgecumbe High School superintendent Suzzuk Huntington will resign from her post at the close of the school year, she announced in an email to staff last week, as the school continues to face financial difficulties and may have to cut large...

A school budget proposal that would terminate up to four teaching positions while finding smaller savings at other points was up for discussion at a special budget work session held by the Sitka School Board Wednesday. As proposed, the budget...

For the second year running, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed an education funding bill on Thursday, citing a lack of policy changes he supported. House Bill 69 would have increased the base student allocation — the core of the state’s...

Outer Coast, a nonprofit, post-secondary education institution based on the former campus of the Sheldon Jackson College, is inviting all community members its first-ever community “Town Hall” on Wednesday night in Fraser Hall on the SJ...

Students, faculty and staff at the University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka are preparing to show their zeal for the university campus, and introduce the new UAS-Sitka campus director, Dr. Jeremy Rupp, during an open house event from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m....

Students from Sitka High School and Mt. Edgecumbe High School participated in the 2025 Alaska High School Mock Trial Competition in Anchorage this weekend, and took home Sitka’s fourth consecutive state championship in the “grueling” courtroom...

By NAOMI JONES  Alaska Beacon I have been subsistence harvesting since I was born. Whether from being by the fish-cutting table or helping package moose for the freezer, I’ve always been right …

GARLAND KENNEDY Sentinel Staff Writer After the successful rollout of the school district's pre-kindergarten program, the School Board voted at Wednesday's regular …

By CORINNE SMITH Alaska Beacon A bill that advanced in the Alaska Senate on Wednesday would provide a $1,000 per-student boost to the state’s school funding formula. …