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LISTEN: What to keep, what to cut in Sitka’s Schools?

School Board Members Tim Fulton and Tom Conley, and superintendent Mary Wegner and business manager Cassee Olin took public comment for 90-minutes during a live KCAW Call-In Special on Monday, March 7, 2016.

UAA’s Alaska Budget Breakdown

Over the past year, Gunnar Knapp, Director and Professor of Economics at UAA has been traveling around the state, talking with many organizations about the fiscal challenge Alaska is facing. Click here to view the full report of his findings.

Aging Southeast: Senior vets face extra challenges

Veterans in remote Southeast Alaska face a lack of access to health care, transportation limitations and the high cost of living. But in Haines, older vets have a support network at the American Legion Hall.

Aging Southeast: Seniors give back by volunteering

Ketchikan residents 65 and older volunteered more than 2,700 hours last year. And that's just those reporting to AARP. Throughout the region, seniors fill gaps in social-services networks.

Aging Southeast: Older residents impact region’s economy

Many of Southeast's seniors get breaks on property and sales taxes. But they also bring money into the economy, often without tying up jobs.

Council takes over foster care for region’s Native children

The largest tribal government in Southeast Alaska now has authority over foster care and other services for Native children facing abuse or neglect.

Sitka Youth Orchestra to perform Beethoven, Strauss

Sitka Youth Orchestra presents its 15th annual spring concert at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 7, at at the Sitka Performing Arts Center.

Aging Southeast: Bunking with the family in Petersburg

Some Southeast Alaska families have stayed with the tradition of helping loved ones age in place. Elders live at home, with children and grandchildren, instead of moving into assisted living or a nursing home.

Fireweed hosts annual gala this weekend

Fireweed Dance Theatre Company presents its annual gala performance on Friday. Director Melinda McAdams was joined by Cady Lynn Jenkins and Juliana Castillo, both former students with Sitka Studio of Dance. Downloadable audio.

New discoveries draw anthropologists to Sitka meeting

Whether it’s searching for gold in a sunken Russian ship, or finding historical nuggets in the dusty archives, the researchers of the Alaska Anthropological Association are on it.