A fire earlier this week at an asphalt plant in Sitka is not expected to delay a major repaving project near two area schools. On Monday morning, firefighters put out a major blaze at Aggregate Construction Inc.
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City wins lastest round in years-long battle for citizen initiative on Sawmill Cove land sales. Five totems raised during Klawock ceremony. Aide to Sen. Begich says Petersburg will keep USCG cutter Anacapa for the time being.
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Sitka Superior Court Judge David George ruled on Thursday against supporters of a ballot initiative that would give citizens a vote on large land sales and leases. It is the latest development in a years-long saga that’s seen the case go all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court and back.
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Willow Moore, executive director of Brave Heart Volunteers, discusses a training this Saturday August 24, 9 AM - 2 PM, for their new adopt-a-grandparent program. All ages are welcome, free childcare is provided. Visit the Brave Heart Volunteers Facebook page.
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SEARHC's Front Street Clinic in Juneau may close. Firefighters battle asphalt plant blaze. Wrangell culture camp helps preserve Tlingit language.
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Assistant Fire Chief Al Stevens says the fire began at the end of Granite Creek Road, where three containers of asphalt were being heated on trailers, for use on Baranof Street. One of the heaters fell off its bracket and landed near the tires of a trailer, which then caught fire.
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https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/interview_081913.mp3 Listen to iFriendly audio. Mark White, a behavioral health clinician at Raven’s Way, says mental health first aid is valuable for just about anyone. Most...
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Sitka Mountain Rescue assists two hikers stranded in the fog on Lucky Chance Ridge. Sitka Schools superintendent Steve Bradshaw resigns effective June '14. Petersburg wins family-friendly award from SF advocacy group. Warm weather creates "marine band" blanketing parts of Southeast.
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Sitka schools superintendent Steve Bradshaw is resigning. Bradshaw turned in his letter to the Sitka School Board at their regular meeting Thursday evening (8-15-13). His resignation will be effective at the end of the coming school year, on June 30, 2014.
Sitka Mountain Rescue led a pair of fog-bound hikers off of Lucky Chance Ridge early Friday morning (8-16-13). Erik Neumann and Lacey Carnahan had spent Wednesday night at Salmon Lake Cabin, about 10 miles south of Sitka, and were planning to hike all day Thursday over the Lucky Chance Ridge to a kayak they had left in Silver Bay near the Green Lake powerhouse. Neumann spent ten weeks in Sitka this summer as the KCAW news intern.
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