The City of Sitka is continuing to brainstorm solutions to the island’s childcare shortage. In a special work session Tuesday night (6-16-26), the assembly decided to move forward with an option from a recently completed childcare study. It’s estimated to cost about $1 million a year. But assembly members still need to refine what they want in the plan before figuring out how to pay for it.
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Sitka’s city hall rolled out new public records request software Friday (6-12-26). Up until the launch, city staff managed requests through emails, a spreadsheet, and sticky notes, and they say the update will make the process more efficient for the clerk’s office and the public.
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Sitka’s police force will see pay increases over the next three years. That’s after the Sitka Assembly on Tuesday (6-19-26) approved the new collective bargaining agreement with the Public Safety Employees Association (PSEA).
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The Sitka Assembly voted to allocate more than $1.1 million in retroactive federal funding to the Sitka School District at its meeting Tuesday night (6-9-26).
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Scientists are looking at the relationship between gray whales and herring around Sitka. The baleen whales have had a massive population decline in the past decade. But their presence in the Sitka Sound has skyrocketed in recent years, coinciding with the Pacific herring spawn. Now, scientists and community collaborators are asking why that is and what the downstream effects might be.
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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.
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Sitkans will consider amending the city’s Home Rule Charter in the upcoming municipal election. At its meeting Tuesday night (5-26-26), the Sitka Assembly voted to put a question to voters this fall that would give the assembly more discretion over when to schedule a special election.
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The Sitka Assembly formally accepted the resignation of Assembly member Tim Pike at its meeting Tuesday night (5-26-26).
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A seasonal Sitka worker is breathing easier today. Her brother has been released by the country of Israel after the humanitarian aid flotilla he was part of was intercepted by the military earlier this week.
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How did a 6-foot-8-inch officer who grew up in South Florida, and worked in counterterrorism and community policing internationally for years, end up on a small island in Southeast Alaska?
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