What if there was a faster way to predict when a COVID-19 wave was about to happen before the positive cases started rolling in? Researchers at the University of Alaska are partnering with communities around the state to figure out if we can make haste, by testing waste.
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The City of Sitka is rapidly working its way through $14 million in federal CARES Act relief. With the deadline just over two months away, local officials are in the unusual position of spending money as fast as they can.
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Harbor Mountain and Blue Lake Road are closed to the public after at least one landslide happened over the weekend.
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A staff member at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School has tested positive for the coronavirus.
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The Sitka Assembly has spent the last few months doling out $14 million in federal CARES Act funding to the community. While it’s set to distribute more of those funds in November, several recipients from the first round of business and nonprofit grants appealed to the assembly for more money.
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With no federal or state funding available to support the project, plans for a new marine haulout in Sitka have come to a standstill. The Sitka Assembly this week (10-13-20) went back to the drawing board to look for new ideas to develop a haulout, which is considered vital to Sitka’s maritime industries.
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When the Sitka Assembly met Tuesday night (10-13-20), it held a ‘changing of the guard’-- recognizing outgoing assembly members, and certifying the results from last week’s municipal election.
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Sitka’s municipal election results were certified by the assembly on Tuesday (10-13-20). Raven News connected with a few of the candidates shortly after the election to find out how they were feeling, in their post election bliss.
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Sitkans have seen an uptick in bear activity in recent weeks. Bears that would typically come out late at night and rob trash cans have become bolder about appearing in the daytime, and Sitka National Historical Park has been closed -- just to humans -- 24/7 until bears head to their dens.
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The polls have closed and the numbers are in...well about half of them, anyway. KCAW’s Katherine Rose reports on how municipal election results looked, as of Tuesday night, and who the front-runners are as officials prepare to count over 1,700 more ballots Wednesday afternoon:
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