About 70 Sitkans lined the street downtown on Saturday in an act of ICE resistance, blowing whistles and holding signs that read, “Alaska is cold enough. We don’t need ICE” and “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
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The giant Pacific octopus is currently the size of an orange. That’s more than seven times the size she was when a resident of Tenakee Springs found her on the beach in August.
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The city will pay a regional nonprofit $25,000 to conduct a childcare needs study as part of an effort to address the growing issue in Sitka.
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Green Lake Road remains closed to all non-essential travel following an avalanche Friday evening (1-9-26).
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City staff asked for big picture budget guidance from the Sitka Assembly during a special meeting Thursday night (1-8-26). During the more than two-hour discussion, assembly members reviewed staff funding requests and discussed fiscal pressures.
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A proposal to increase the nonresident bag limit in the Sitka area from two bucks to four deer each year will be considered at an upcoming Alaska Board of Game meeting in Wrangell later this month.
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The Sitka Assembly is looking to address an ongoing problem in Sitka: bears breaking into trash cans. But how the body will go about it is still up in the air.
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The Sitka Assembly may consider putting a cap on utility rate increases next fiscal year. The idea was raised when the assembly began deliberations over next year’s budget in a special meeting on Thursday (12-18-25).
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The city may have finally secured an operator to run its visitor services program, Visit Sitka. But when the Sitka Assembly met on Tuesday (12-16-25), the group approved an initial round of funding to pay the contractor, but spent over two hours hashing out details over the contract.
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What could be Alaska’s first official hybrid electric fishing boat is one step closer to hitting the water. The boat is part of a pilot program based in Sitka to address high fuel costs for the fishing fleet and maybe make fishing just a little bit greener.
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