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Groundbreaking citizen science program continues in 2022

Heather Bauscher, Lauren Divine, and Lindsey Bloom joined KCAW to give an update on the Skipper Science program.

Team Alaska overall winners in 930-mile ‘Race Across the West’

Team Alaska's Peter Apathy (rider) and Carole Knuth (support) share the details of their win in the 930-mile Race Across the West.

Survey closing July 8: Strategic plan will be Sitka’s roadmap for the next five years

Sitka's government relations director Melissa Henshaw and SSW Consulting's Sara Wilson give a broad overview of the city's strategic plan, including a timeline, focus group opportunities, the difference between a comprehensive plan and a strategic plan, why the public should care, and the importance of participating in the survey.

A ‘story trail’ and Sitka’s first Juneteenth Celebration bring out families in June

On back-to-back days – June 18 and 19 – the Pathways to a Safer Sitka Coalition held a Story Trail along the downtown sea walk, and Sitka’s first-ever Juneteenth celebration.

Watch Live: Jan. 6 Committee schedules last-minute hearing

The Jan. 6 Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol will hold its sixth hearing on Tuesday (6-27-22) after previously announcing there would be no more hearings until July. Watch live here beginning at 9 a.m. AKST.

Catch a glimpse of puffins and auklets on upcoming bird cruise

Next week, the Sitka Conservation Society is hosting the first of several annual fundraising cruises. Heather Bauscher joined KCAW's Brooke Schafer to discuss three of the Society's cruises this summer: Birds, Intertidal, and Kruzof Wildlife and Geology.

Sitka strolls to another bronze in national walk-friendly program

Sitka won its first bronze from the Walk Friendly Communities Program in 2013, and it remains the only city in Alaska to be recognized by the program.

Jazz on the Waterfront: Where Basie meets boeuf bourguignon

SFAC director Roger Schmidt shares details of this Saturday's Jazz on the Waterfront: Kyle Athade will lead a 20-member jazz orchestra playing selections from the French Hot Club era, Basie, a Latin music set, and R&B. The menu, from Chef Patti Peck, includes tapenade toast points, boeuf bourguignon, and a lemon mousse and rasberry coulis.

With a way of life on the Y-K Delta at risk, the North Pacific Council declines to reduce trawl bycatch, and instead wants more study of climate change

Despite hours of testimony from residents living along the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers who called for urgent action to curb the bycatch of chinook and chum salmon in the Bering Sea trawl fisheries, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council decided to approach the problem more methodically.