https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/interview_081913.mp3 Listen to iFriendly audio. Mark White, a behavioral health clinician at Raven’s Way, says mental health first aid is valuable for just about anyone. Most...
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Sitka Mountain Rescue assists two hikers stranded in the fog on Lucky Chance Ridge. Sitka Schools superintendent Steve Bradshaw resigns effective June '14. Petersburg wins family-friendly award from SF advocacy group. Warm weather creates "marine band" blanketing parts of Southeast.
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Sitka schools superintendent Steve Bradshaw is resigning. Bradshaw turned in his letter to the Sitka School Board at their regular meeting Thursday evening (8-15-13). His resignation will be effective at the end of the coming school year, on June 30, 2014.
Sitka Mountain Rescue led a pair of fog-bound hikers off of Lucky Chance Ridge early Friday morning (8-16-13). Erik Neumann and Lacey Carnahan had spent Wednesday night at Salmon Lake Cabin, about 10 miles south of Sitka, and were planning to hike all day Thursday over the Lucky Chance Ridge to a kayak they had left in Silver Bay near the Green Lake powerhouse. Neumann spent ten weeks in Sitka this summer as the KCAW news intern.
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An unbelievable streak of beautiful summer weather came to an abrupt end Thursday evening...
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Coast Guard detects oil leak from sunken tender southwest of Petersburg. Playwright "pulls back curtain" on Alaska public radio. A pair of Ketchikan bald eagles recovering in Sitka from mystery ailment. ADF&G asks Fairbanks bird hunters to hold off for two weeks.
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A playwright is spending the summer working on a project that could be of interest -- literally -- to everyone listening right now. Sarah DeLappe is melding the experiences of her sister at KNOM in Nome, with interviews at KCAW in Sitka, to write a play about a public radio station in Alaska.
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Brooklyn-based Jarrett Moran is the editor-in-chief of Artlog, and a rising art critic in a profession dominated by typically older practitioners. He's interested in the connection between philosophy, politics, and art. He's one of seven residents in this year's Sitka Fellows program.
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"Deadliest Catch" skipper rescues crew of stricken seiner off coast of Prince of Wales Island. Assembly allows South Benchlands sale to move forward, trusts developer to create affordability. Trees and trails prompt assembly questions.
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The Sitka assembly is moving ahead with the sale of about 20 acres of Benchlands property to a local developer -- but what is ultimately built on the land will depend on market forces, rather than on an affordable housing plan. The assembly agreed to proceed with drawing up an agreement with Sound Development, LLC, after a lengthy discussion about whether city hall should try include language requiring that the result be affordable.
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