“It's definitely an unusual season," said Andrew Piston, the region’s salmon research supervisor for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. "I mean, the harvest through this past week was about as low as it's ever been since, you know, the 1960s."
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"What I'm most proud of is the three major bills that passed, and what I'm most frustrated about is that two of those were vetoed and we were unable to override those vetoes," Himschoot said.
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Sitka School District board members consider cutting staff positions in the 2026-7 school year...
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The schedule looks a lot like recent years, with six of the state’s nine vessels sailing. There is not enough funding or staffing to run them all, according to the state Department of Transportation.
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Most of Southeast Alaska avoided hurricane-force winds Friday but 70-mile-an-hour gusts were recorded at Southern Admiralty Island. Sitka missed the worst of the storm as it passed south of the town.
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The region lost 7,700 kids and working age residents in the last decade. “We've mapped it out, you know 25 years, and we still have a region without the young people and the workforce that we need. So the only way out of this issue is to build, build, build housing," said Meilani Schijvens.
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The state plans to build new hybrid ferries to replace the aging fleet, hire more workers to run them, and improve infrastructure at the ports. That, plus regular maintenance, is estimated to cost about $3 billion.
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“It's our highway within Southeast Alaska, and that's what folks aren't understanding,” said Melissa Wileman with the City and Borough of Sitka.
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Sitka continued to experience a wide internet and cell service outage Friday. Nearly all Sitkans use GCI for both services, but that went out Thursday shortly after 11 a.m. The company said technicians were working to temporarily reroute Sitka’s internet traffic.
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Updated: 11:25 a.m.Sitka’s internet outage is impacting local medical services. The regional healthcare provider, Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, announced that until internet service is restored, Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center is canceling elective surgeries.
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