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Sitkans to participate in ‘World Car Free Day’

Wednesday, September 22nd is World Car Free Day. People from all over the globe will be commemorating the annual event by commuting without a motorized vehicle.

Van catches fire, burns at former Sitka Presbyterian Church

Police were first on the scene, and attempted to extinguish the fire in the engine compartment of the Chevy van, but it was already higher than the vehicle’s roof.

Open for submissions: October Monthly Grind ‘Art in the Cave’ shines light on Sitka’s fall art scene

Vern Culp is producing the October Monthly Grind, "Art in the Cave." He joins us to discuss how make a video submission for the virtual Grind on October 9. The deadline for submissions is September 25.

Street closed after historic clan house slumps, threatens to slide into roadway

A portion of Katlian Street in downtown Sitka remained closed over the weekend, after an unmaintained building showed signs of collapse. The structure, known in English as “On The Point House,” dates from the early Twentieth Century, and is one of a handful clan houses remaining in Sitka from that era.

Coast Guard medevacs passenger from cruise ship Celebrity Millennium Wednesday

A Coast Guard helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka medevaced a passenger from a cruise ship, Celebrity Millennium, Wednesday morning

Invasive shrimp-sucking parasite detected in Southeast

Prof. John Chapman is an invasive species specialist at Oregon State University. He and a team of researchers were in Alaska this summer studying an invasive isopod that has now reached Ketchikan and Sitka, and is destructive to an important invertebrate called the blue mud shrimp. Chapman discusses his work with KCAW's Robert Woolsey. Listen here: