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Brief power outage in Sitka caused by cracked transformer
Sitka experienced a brief electrical outage Tuesday night (6-2-26) just before 10:00 p.m. Power was restored shortly after 11:00 p.m.
Sitka resident tamps out microwave fire
A Sitkan extinguished a microwave fire on Friday (5-29-26) just before firefighters arrived to help.
Sitkans send off ‘Ancestral Echoes’ canoe headed to Celebration
More than 100 Sitkans gathered at the Starrigavan boat launch Thursday morning for a blessing and send-off of the “Ancestral Echoes” canoe heading to Celebration in Juneau.
City leaders consider insurance waivers for GPIP haulout
Months after the City and Borough of Sitka finally opened its marine haulout and shipyard at the Gary Paxton Industrial Park, some boats are still not being hauled. At a recent park board meeting, fishermen called for city leaders to waive insurance requirements.
The Morning Interview
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KCAW welcomes 2026-27 news resident, Lauren Salemo
Raven News is excited to announce our 2026-2027 Sarah Evangeline Hughes News Resident, Lauren Salemo.
Sitka Cancer Survivor’s Society hosts cruise this weekend
The Sitka Cancer Survivor's Society is hosting a wildlife cruise this Saturday.
Municipal Administrator outlines Sitka’s upcoming construction projects
Municipal Administrator John Leach discusses ongoing projects affecting traffic and pedestrian access, including utility and sidewalk upgrades on Lake, Hirst, Monastery, and Kinkead streets, repaving work around town, and phase two of Sitka's seawalk.
Southeast News
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Wrangell Museum to launch new website
The Wrangell Museum is close to launching a new website that will provide access to an online...
Forest Service holds subsistence hearing for proposed Prince of Wales logging project
A timber sale sign is posted in the Tongass National Forest on Prince of Wales Island. (KRBD file...
Kaasitlaan Dancers perform at Celebration 2026
The Wrangell JOM Kaasitlaan Dancers will perform three times at Celebration 2026 in Juneau this...
Alaska News
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Bill protecting Alaska Native ivory sales heads to president
The bill would amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act, a broad set of federal regulations first...
Deep sea observation station that tracks climate change set to be pulled from Gulf of Alaska
Ocean Station Papa, which collects ocean and climate data, is one of five federal ocean monitoring...
Donlin Gold defends its state water permit in Alaska Supreme Court
Bethel’s ONC tribe argues the proposed mine’s removal of water from Crooked Creek, a Kuskokwim...
NPR
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North Korea unveils a new plant to produce fuel for nuclear weapons
State media photos on the place showed it is likely a plant to produce weapons-grade...
Embedded: “We Keep Us Safe” from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times
In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a...
What will it take to get a vaccine for the Ebola strain driving the current outbreak?
There is an effective vaccine for Ebola — but not for the variety spreading rapidly in the...
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