Sitka News

JUNEAU, Alaska - A boat operator is being accused of fire-bombing a storefront in Auke Bay after he allegedly became upset when the business couldn't fix his boat.

The city of Sitka has gone on record in support of efforts to reduce the amount of halibut wasted in Alaska's trawl fisheries.

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Wood pulp mills no longer exist in Alaska after the closures of the Alaska Pulp Company in Sitka and Ketchikan Pulp Company, both in the 1990s.

Alaska's lone congressman says transparency is the problem with - and not the solution to - good government.

Back in February 1982, a newly formed community radio station entered the airwaves, broadcasting KCAW's programming to Sitka, Angoon, Elfin Cove, Kake, Pelican, Port Alexander, Tenakee Springs, Yakutat and a wide swath of coastal fishing grounds.

Hundreds of community members lined the streets in Fairbanks honoring veterans and military personnel Saturday, May 12, 2012 during the Salute to Our Military Parade.

In 2008, Sitka became the first Alaska community to earn a Bicycle Friendly Community award.

Tuesday's decision puts Wrangell Representative Peggy Wilson in the same election district as Ketchikan Representative Kyle Johansen.

SITKA, Alaska - A bald eagle that was struck by a bullet had to be euthanized at the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka, center officials said.

The Daily Sitka Sentinel says the League of American Bicyclists announced the renewal of Sitka's "bronze" status as a Bicycle Friendly Community.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Behavioral Health Division will host a 100th course celebration on Friday, May 25, for the Gunaanasti Bill Brady Healing Center adult residential substance abuse treatment program in Sitka.

Eleven Alaska Native/American Indian high school students from rural Alaska communities learned about health careers as they participated in the 2012 Ethel Lund Village Health Occupations Program on April 24-27 in Sitka.

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Alexei Desatoff, who heads the physical therapy program at the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium S'axt' Hit Mt.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Diabetes program will host health and wellness expert Darryl Tonemah for a panel discussion about "Storytelling as a Tool to Heal." This free event is open and takes place from 2-5 p.m. on May 9, at the At Kanik Hit Community Health building first-floor conference room, 1212 Seward Ave.

I'm from Sitka, Alaska. If you know me, chances are this isn't news to you. If you don't know me, well, you already know I'm from Sitka because pretty often it's the first thing I tell people.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium S'axt' Hit Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital has added Matthew T. James to its medical staff as a physician assistant.

A 43-foot commercial fishing boat that ran aground last week in Sitka is now in worse shape.

A search is under way in Port Protection, about 50 miles north of Klawock, for a 13-year-old girl who did not return from a hike Sunday evening according to Alaska State Troopers.