Tucked away behind the Sitka Pioneer Home, which provides state-run senior housing and care, is a cozy yellow building with an entryway filled with tiny jackets and boots. These old nurses’ quarters now house Mt. Edgecumbe Preschool.
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The seasonal warming shelter would run from October 1 to March 31 and sleep up to 20 men. Staffed by volunteers, it would be located in an existing structure, a two story dorm hall behind the church.
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Students from around Alaska gathered in Anchorage this weekend to compete in the state wrestling...
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The Rasmuson Foundation awarded the Sitka Community Playground group $200,000 and on Tuesday, the Sitka Assembly authorized the city to receive those grants on behalf of the group.
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The Sitka assembly on Tuesday will consider on final reading a sweeping anti-discrimination ordinance. But will it really change anything in Sitka?
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A local seafood processor is getting into the shellfish game. Silver Bay Seafoods applied for two mariculture leases earlier this year. The leases are good for ten years. If approved by the state, they will install 22 rafts in two separate locations northwest of Sitka for raising shellfish.
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Whale watching is a popular pastime in Alaska, but what about whale listening? Dr. Kate Stafford does it for a living.
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The Sitka Tribe of Alaska has landed over $2 million in federal grant money to aid victims of domestic violence.
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Earlier this fall, the Human Rights Campaign, a national nonprofit, released its annual Municipal Equality Index. Along with 10 other cities, Sitka received a score of zero.
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Earlier this fall -- right around the October Alaska Day Festival -- a group of Sitkans renewed a conversation about a piece of bronze art in heart of downtown.
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