SOHO Press in New York will publish the eighth installment in the Cecil Younger Investigations series this December 7. Titled So Far And Good, the novel is a standalone sequel to Baby’s First Felony, which came out in 2019.
Read More
With the holiday season approaching, Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska's chief medical officer and a parent of young children, makes the case for the new pediatric Pfizer vaccine for ages 5 to 11.
Read More
None of the hostility seen at local school board meetings across the country recently by anti-masking groups was apparent at the November 1 meeting of the Sitka School Board. With zero cases currently associated with the district, the tone was optimistic that mitigation measures were working, and that students were making up for time lost in the past year.
Read More
Renewable energy is gaining momentum in the US, but oil and gas will remain the country’s major sources of energy for at least the next three decades, according to Alaska Oil & Gas Association director Kara Moriarty.
Read More
Sitka’s Fish & Game Advisory committee wants to revive a local bear working group, to look for solutions to the high number of kills in the community this season -- but some members did not to see more fines or penalties.
Read More
The Sitka Fish & Game Advisory Committee wants the federal government to cap the excessive bycatch of halibut, salmon, and other valuable species in the Bering Sea trawl fisheries, which primarily target pollock. “It should not be up to the small boat fleet to carry the burden of the trawl fleet's inability to catch their target species without collateral damage,” the committee's letter said.
Read More
Enrollment is down in Alaska’s university-level accounting programs -- but demand for accounting in the state is on the rise. UAS professor Julie Hamilton says accounting is fun, and much more than "counting beans."
Read More
2020 will always be remembered as a pandemic year -- but in Southeast Alaska, it also will be noted as the year that Health Care became the largest private sector wage provider in the region.
Read More
Wildlife officials this week (Tuesday 10-19-2) shot and killed three brown bears at Sitka’s waste transfer station. As their search for food intensifies, these bears probably won't be the last animals to be "removed" before winter.
Read More
Eric Van Cise (l.) watches polling results in the Sitka Firehall in 2015, when he won his first term on the Sitka School Board. At his final meeting six years later on October 6, 2021, he urged board members to look objectively...
Read More
