Sitka News

Sitka police say the Alaska medical examiner's office has determined that hypothermiacaused the death of a 37-year-old man whose body was found outside in December.

Sitka police say the Alaska medical examiner's office has determined that hypothermia caused the death of a 37-year-old man whose body was found outside in December.

It's easy to imagine rich landscapes of natural beauty when thinking about Southeast Alaska.

Thanks to a partnership with the Sitka Conservation Society, Pacific High School now serves local seafood in the cafeteria and joins the growing ranks of schools connecting to local foods.

Thirty-six Alaskan sites are set up for a free tax preparation service available until April 17 through the AARP Foundation.

Born in San Francisco in 1963, Preston Singletary has lived in Seattle almost ever since.

In this Nov. 9, 2010 file photo Sitka artist Teri Rofkar shows students at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School one of her weaving projects in Sitka, Alaska.

The Friends of the Juneau Public Libraries and the volunteers at the Friends' Amazing Bookstore would like to thank Worldwide Movers, Alaska Marine Lines and the Airport Shopping Center, for enabling us to move four tons of books to Thrift Books in Seattle.

Sitka High graduate J.R. Ancheta, a student in the journalism program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, was in the final days of a month-long embed with American soldiers in Afghanistan earlier this month when he and colleague Cheryl Hatch decided to visit an Army hospital at an airfield in Kandahar.

She was known as Arnaucuaq in Yupik, and Maryann Sundown in English, and she will be remembered for her comedic style of traditional Native dance.

A pair of recent Sitka High graduates had an unexpected meeting last week - in a combat hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Jessica and Jason Dunn show off their daughter, Madelyn Mae Dunn, who was the first baby of 2012 born at the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium S'axt' Hit Mt.

The money and the political support will exist to expand the number of Village Public Safety Officers to every Alaskan village that wants one by 2019, but it has taken time to find qualified candidates for the remote posts.

The storms of life often roll in quickly and unannounced. The lack of warning can leave most in a paralyzing grip of fear, but it is how the situation is handled that shows a person's true character.