Sitka News

JUNEAU, ALASKA Fish as well as people are expected to benefit from another round of federal stimulus funding that's headed to Alaska.

The first 49-star flag in the nation flew over historic Ft. McHenry. SITKA, ALASKA The first 49-star flag in Alaska was raised in secret at 12:01 AM on July 4th 1959 on Sitka's Castle Hill.

The new film, 'The Proposal,' is a fun, silly and steamy romantic comedy I guarantee you'll enjoy.

In "The Proposal," Sandra Bullock stars as a book editor, Margaret Tate, who faces deportation to her native Canada after her visa expires.

SITKA, ALASKA Regional inter-island Ferry service provided by the Inter-island Ferry Authority in Northern Southeast Alaska is no longer an option.

At the soft comic heart of "The Proposal" beats a cheeky update of "The Taming of the Shrew" -- you know, the arranged marriage, wives-submit-to-husbands rubric that Shakespeare played around with all those years ago.

Kodiak Diesel in Kodiak, Alaska has just finished the repower of the F/V Jeanoah an 84 ft crabbing and long line vessel owned by Fairweather Fisheries, Jerry Bongen & James Stevens.

The Proposal is a good old-fashioned romantic comedy with a little new-fashioned nudity thrown in.

'The Proposal' Sandra Bullock doesn't want her latest movie to be called a romantic comedy.

Teaming romantic-comedy veteran Sandra Bullock with Ryan Reynolds, "The Proposal" is the first film in a good while to simply present the funny story of two unlikely souls finding unexpected love.

Liam Lacey From Friday's Globe and Mail, Thursday, Jun. 18, 2009 03:32PM EDT T he Proposal Directed by Anne Fletcher Written by Pete Chiarelli Classification: PG Onscreen chemistry is an elusive notion but you know it when you see it, and Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds definitely have it in The Proposal .

All the romantic comedy conventions are shamelessly on parade in "The Proposal," trampling on our brains and turning them into mush.

SITKA TOO REMOTE TO PLAY ITSELF IN 'THE PROPOSAL' : Sitka didn't pass its audition when it came to playing itself in "The Proposal," the new Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds romantic comedy.

A controversial new commercial fishery for Dungeness crab in Southeast Alaska is set to start today after a judge denied a request to block it.

After a grueling 15-week course at the Department of Public Safety Training Academy in Sitka, summer on the Kenai Peninsula is a welcome sight for the Kenai Police Department's three new additions to the force.

Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital announced Thursday that tests had confirmed a patient at its urgent care clinic had been confirmed with swine flu, one of 14 cases so far identified in Alaska.

Actors Ryan Reynolds, left and Sandra Bullock arrive at the premiere of "The Proposal" Monday, June 1, 2009, in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles.

Tracie Harang and her 11-year-old son Brady hatched their plan for a children's book last fall, while sunning themselves on a rock at the World War II Causeway off Japonski Island.

The Coast Guard responded Monday to a grounded fishing vessel with a deceased captain on board.

SITKA, ALASKA The first documented case of the H1N1 swine flu in Southeast Alaska was reported at the SEARHC clinic in Haines yesterday .