Bears are coming back to town. They're on the trails. They're in your trash. Fish and Game biologists Holly Dennison and Steve Bethune and Sitka Conservation Society's Andrew Thoms joined KCAW's Brooke Schafer in the studio to discuss how Sitkans can be more prepared when a bear encounter occurs.
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Inspired by legendary jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin, Derek Brown transforms the saxophone into a multi-voiced percussive instrument. He'll play 7 p.m. this Friday, May 17, in the Odess Theater.
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Almost two years after leaving Sitka on an historic 8,000-mile voyage through the Northwest Passage, the USCG Cutter Maple returned to duty with a splash this spring at its new homeport in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. The ship assisted NASA in an open-ocean test of its Orion spacecraft.
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The state ferry Columbia will be back in action this weekend, after undergoing repairs in Juneau earlier this week. According to a press release from the Alaska Department of Transportation, the Columbia will resume its regular schedule on Sunday May 12, departing from Ketchikan at 9 a.m. heading northbound.
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The KCAW News Department won a record 11 awards at the 2019 meeting of the Alaska Press Club in April. Our colleagues at the Daily Sitka Sentinel brought home 3, cementing the fact that -- for a town of its size (or any size, really!) -- Sitka values exceptional journalism.
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Next weekend marks the 34th annual Julie Hughes Triathlon. The race is a tribute to Julie Hughes, a high-school swimmer who died of leukemia in 1985 at the age of 15.
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As the summer approaches, more and more Sitkans are pulling their bikes out of storage and riding around town. May is National Bike Month and to further motivate people to travel on two wheels, the Sitka Cycling Club will host community events all month long.
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Future Problem Solvers pack the KCAW studio to talk about their event and their team, which is headed to the International Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst June 5-9. The conference will feature a competition on the topic of de-extinction.
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A dog was attacked and killed on a Sitka trail on Saturday (5-4-19), defending her owner from a brown bear. "Rascal," a female shepherd/huskie mix, put herself between her owner and the advancing bear, which then fatally mauled her.
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Juneau actor Patricia Hull and pianist Jon Hays will perform the one-woman musical Mother Jones in Heaven at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, May 3, in the Mean Queen. Hull says a pub is the ideal venue for the show, which celebrates Mother Jones's life advocating for workers' rights -- and her love of the pint!
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