Sitka News

Residency: Juneau but born in Sitka. Tribe, moiety, clan: Tlingit, Eagle , Killer Whale Positions: Past president and life member Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary, life member Alaska Native Sisterhood, B-17 riveter at Boeing in World War II.

After her cell phone gets stolen by an eagle, she picks up a replacement at the town general store - what could be more Alaska? - and then goes to the only Internet cafe around.

Huge crowds are expected when Sarah Palin kicks off her national book tour in Michigan.

Kodiak and Alaska Peninsula crabbers got some good news recently: bigger catch quotas are allowed for bairdi Tanner crab, a mid-January fishery important to local economies.

Walter Soboleff has done a lot in his 100-plus years on Earth, but his family's gift of a cruise through the Panama Canal is something new.

Bob Banghart of Juneau has been named Chief Curator at the Alaska State Museums.

" Throughout the month of November, Peace Corps is celebrating National Native American Heritage Month and honoring the contributions of Native American Peace Corps Volunteers serving worldwide.

CLOSE You don't have to read the Bible long before you encounter cultures and lifestyles foreign to you.

SITKA, ALASKA For the second year in a row a Sitka fisherman will appear on the cover of the December issue of National Fisherman, as one of that magazine's 'Highliners of the Year.' Except this year's honoree is a woman, and only the third female ever to be named to the prestigious roster.

Having decided to open a cafe together last fall, Amelia Budd and Amy Kane had much to accomplish.

On Friday afternoon, the Sitka Local Foods Network hosted anthropology student Elizabeth Kunibe of Juneau for a presentation, "Growing in Sitka and Southeast Alaska: Food of Today, Tomorrow and 200 Years Ago." This presentation took place at the Kettleson Memorial Library and we had a standing-room-only crowd of 50-plus, despite being arranged less ...

The University of Dubuque might soon acquire a small private college located in southeast Alaska that suspended all academic operations two years ago.

The Coast Guard's plan to move away from oil-fired burners and toward heating with biomass could provide a lift to the timber industry in Southeast Alaska.

Kake Tribal Corp. has suspended its foreclosure of Pelican Seafoods, hoping to avoid taking on the old plant's liabilities.

Evergreen Films announced today that the company has signed a development deal with New York Times bestselling author, Dana Stabenow to bring her popular Kate Shugak, Alaska P.I. mystery series to television.

A strong education campaign was cited as the main reason for Anchorage's award. The city provided bike education kits, including horns and helmets, to all Anchorage School District elementary and charter schools.

The Coast Guard says Michael Diverty of Sitka is believed to have fallen off the Miss Dee Dee on Friday in Fish Bay.

SITKA, ALASKA Two candidates for governor were in Sitka over the Alaska Day weekend.

Walking past the onion-domed St. Michael's Cathedral in Sitka this Alaska Day weekend, I was struck by the kaleidoscope of costumes.

Link: KCAW Sitkans on Sunday celebrated the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the U.S. there in 1867.