After a comprehensive search and recruitment effort over the winter, KCAW found a candidate to fill the demanding shoes of full-time reporter -- and we never had to look too far. Katherine Rose became our full-time reporter on March 18.
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Grammy-winning cellist and Sitka Summer Music Festival artistic director Zuill Bailey says that pianist Awadagin Pratt is his oldest friend in music, with a relationship going back to a table-tennis rivalry in their teens. They'll share their stories and music in two events this weekend.
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Sitka Cirque's Jessica Christianson and Frances Donohoe joined KCAW's Erin Fulton in the studio to discuss their upcoming original show, "Tides."
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Mysti Birky, with Coast Guard Spouses and Women's Association, outlines this year's Rainy Day Bazaar, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, April 13 at Harrigan Centennial Hall. A tradition in Sitka of some 30 years, the Rainy Day Bazaar features 60 vendors.
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The Sitka Assembly has an eighth member, and he’s ready to hit the ground running -- which shouldn’t be a problem, since he’s close to the ground already.
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My name is Chip Treinen. I'm a Southeast Alaska sac roe seine permit holder and have been fishing herring here in Sitka as well as other parts of the state for over 25 years.
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Louise Brady describes the schedule for the Saturday, April 6, Koo.eex' hosted by the Sitka Kiks.adi. A canoe will be launched from Old Sitka, and paddled to Crescent Harbor with a planned arrival time of 1 p.m. Everyone will then march to the ANB Founders Hall for the 2 p.m. koo.eex' (translated literally as "an invitation").
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A group of Sitka High School students trekked to Napakiak on the Sister School Exchange program, which matches a rural and an urban school to work together throughout the year. Now, the students they visited there have made the trip southeast to learn about life in Sitka.
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55 years ago, on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake struck Southcentral Alaska. In 2014, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Great Alaska Quake, KCAW’s Emily Forman prepared a five-part retrospective of the event, featuring residents who experienced it first hand -- both in Anchorage and in Southeast.
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44-year old Jeremy Beebe was arrested by Sitka police on March 5, and handed over to federal authorities, on charges that he illegally possessed weapons as a felon. Beebe made news in 2016 when he attempted to elude capture by digging a tunnel system under his home in the Vitskari Trailer Court. That structure burned to the ground Monday night (3-25-19).
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