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LatestGymnasts jump for joy on Parks and Rec’s new AirFloor
by KCAW News | Apr 25, 2025
Sitka gymnasts were jumping for joy this week when they got to practice for the first time on the city’s new air floor that was donated by the Sitka Recreation Foundation. The city’s Parks and Rec Department team sent over this audio postcard from the event:
After a five-year closure, Hoonah Sound reopens to subsistence shrimp harvest
by KCAW News | Apr 24, 2025
The backyard shrimp barbecue may be returning to Sitka this summer. The state is reopening Hoonah Sound to subsistence shrimp harvests for the first time in five years. As KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports, the rebound is due to positive signs in the curious life cycle of shrimp.
Gov. Dunleavy’s BSA proposal could mean more cuts for Sitka’s schools
by Katherine Rose | Apr 23, 2025
Governor Dunleavy has proposed a $560 per-student increase. That’s lower than the $680 the governor approved last year, and which Sitka’s school board was counting on in its most recent draft budget.
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LatestFederal Funding & KCAW
by KCAW | Apr 23, 2025 | Station Highlights | 0
Funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is 24% of KCAW’s budget this year and now it's under threat...
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Latest‘Anti-genre’ bands return to Sitka for weekend concerts
Apr 25, 2025
Visiting bands Sledgehammer and Peter Wooten will perform in Sitka this weekend. The bands last visited Sitka in February, when they played a memorial concert to raise funds for the families of the late F/V Windwalker crew.
Sitka History for Tour Guides (and anyone else!) offered this weekend
Apr 24, 2025
Many people involved in Sitka's visitor industry find themselves teaching a bit about the community's history. But where is a good place to learn it? SMHS is offering a course this Saturday, April 26.
SEARHC hosts free presentation on Medicare
Apr 24, 2025
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is hosting a free presentation on Medicare to answer questions and help Sitkans enroll in the program.
Southeast News
LatestTribal commission worries about British Columbia’s mining regulations; mine company states they operate sustainably
by KSTK Wrangell | Apr 25, 2025
The open pits and waste rock pile at Red Chris Mine in the headwaters of the Iskut River, a major...
Ketchikan band Dude Mtn on Alaska Folk Festival and the sound of Southeast Alaska
by KRBD Ketchikan | Apr 25, 2025
Dude Mtn’s Cullen McCormick (L) and Chazz Gist (R) on stage at the Alaskan Hotel & Bar during...
Federal subsistence king salmon fishery closes this season on Stikine River
by KSTK Wrangell | Apr 25, 2025
The Stikine River Delta, as seen from the air. (Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska News.)The Wrangell...
Alaska News
LatestAlaska News Nightly: Friday, April 25, 2025
by APRN | Apr 25, 2025
Scientists say the Trump administration’s planned cuts would devastate climate research in...
Trump administration planning Alaska summit to discuss LNG pipeline, reports say
by APRN | Apr 25, 2025
The Trump administration is planning an Alaska summit with leaders from Japan and South Korea in...
How tariff policies are affecting Alaskan business | Alaska Insight
by APRN | Apr 25, 2025
We hear about how Alaska businesses are coping with broad and uncertain tariffs.
NPR
LatestAs a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers
by NPR | Apr 28, 2025
The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health’s MOSAIC grant program,...
Trump administration tries to ramp up deportations. And, a look at Canada’s election
by NPR | Apr 28, 2025
Critics say the Trump administration is making mistakes as it tries to drive up deportation...
What connects Fredéric Chopin, Marcel Proust and Jim Morrison? A final resting place
by NPR | Apr 28, 2025
The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a paean to the renowned Parisian cemetery, Père Lachaise. There,...
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