Katherine Rose, Author at KCAW

Assembly approves sale of Sitka Community Hospital

The city of Sitka is moving forward with the sale of Sitka Community Hospital to the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium. In a vote of 5-2 they approved the final sale documents. Now those must go to the SEARHC board for approval.

Assembly holds off on hiring investigator, planning director

The Sitka Assembly, Thursday (4/11/19), postponed choosing a consultant to conduct an outside investigation of the Sitka Police Department. They voted against approving the hire of a new city planning director on the basis of salary, and they went into executive session to consider questions surrounding the liquor license renewal application for Baranof Island Brewing Company.

One family’s pirate home is Sitka’s hidden treasure

For the last 40 years, one Sitka family has been realizing an extraordinary vision, slowly turning their home into a shipwrecked, tropical paradise.

Assembly meeting rescheduled due to lack of quorum

When the Sitka Assembly meets tonight (4/9/19), it may take further action on a outside investigation of the Sitka Police Department, and could choose a third party investigator from a list of names put forth by an assembly subcommittee last month.

CorvidEYE: A celebration of herring

Kyle Rosendale, STA fisheries biologist, watches canoeists paddling in the Sitka Tribe of Alaska...

Assembly, school board grapple with question of funding

Despite a lengthy meeting Thursday night (4-4-19), the Sitka School Board and Sitka Assembly have not agreed on terms for school funding next year.

In kelp forests, scientists seek climate change refuge for herring roe

In the basement of the Sitka Sound Science Center researchers are incubating thousands of herring eggs to determine the effects of warming ocean temperatures and ocean acidification on the species -- now and in the future. KCAW’s Katherine Rose reports.

Search team rescues boy on Harbor Mountain

The Sitka Fire Department search and rescue team, on Saturday, aided a 13-year-old boy who became stuck after sliding down a steep, snowy slope on Harbor Mountain.

Assembly earmarks $35,000 for SPD investigation

The Sitka Assembly is going to authorize an independent investigation of the police department -- maybe. On a split vote this week (3-26-19) the assembly authorized spending up to $35,000 to hire an investigator, but not until after a new interim chief has had a chance to weigh in on what some describe as a toxic workplace culture.