KCAW - Sitka

Organizers from the group Small Town SOUL submitted an application in June to put a cruise limit question out to voters in this year’s municipal election.

Angoon mayor Peter Duncan remembers first hearing about a proposal to develop Thayer Creek when Jimmy Carter was president. 

On June 9, a mariner fouled his anchor in Herring Cove. Every time he tried to move the anchor, a little oil sheen and debris would pop up.

Randy Bollinger has built whole houses out of stone and restored other historical properties throughout New England.

When Lisa Busch announced she was retiring this April after 14 years as Executive Director of the Sitka Sound Science Center, Fairbanks-based veterinarian Arleigh Reynolds says he was ready to hop on a southbound flight. Reynolds, who most recently served as the director of the University of Alaska – Fairbanks Center for One Health Research,…

A U.S. Coast Guard team spent the past year reconstructing the Awakin’s final trip, trying to learn what befell the boat and the five people on board.

Sitka Indian Village was once home to over forty Lingít clan houses. Today, only eight of those are still standing, and even fewer serve as active clan houses.

The latecomer is the Nieuw Amsterdam, which notified Sitka’s port director about a week ago that it was making an unscheduled call.

The survey also found that tribal citizens are leaving Sitka at a higher rate than other residents. 

NOAA researchers are refining a method to collect data about what fish were present in an area, up to two days after those fish have moved on.