Subsistence harvester and former Sitka Tribal Council member Tom Gamble questioned the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's forecast model at the preseason herring meeting on Thursday, Mar. 16.
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The Sitka High School boys basketball team received the National High School Spirit of Sport Award for rescuing residents from a burning building in Anchorage last year.
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Fish to School is a weekly lunch program in Sitka that gets wild salmon out of a fisherman’s net and onto a student's plate. Downloadable audio.
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The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is the recipient of a $240,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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There’s no damage to the barge that ran aground late Wednesday night about 80 miles southeast of Sitka, but there was a small oil sheen spotted around the area.
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The 100-foot Ocean Eagle was sailing through Sumner Strait, 80 miles southeast of Sitka, with a barge in tow when it ran aground on Mariposa Reef.
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The Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association is hosting a fisherman’s expo in Sitka. The Spring Fishermen’s Expo is free and open to the public.
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The Sitka Tribe of Alaska wants to see more protection for subsistence harvesters when herring season begins next month. Downloadable audio.
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Seventy years ago today, Feb. 22, 1947, the Bureau of Indian Affairs opened Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka. It reopened as a public boarding school in 1985 and a lot has changed over the decades. Downloadable audio.
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In celebration of the 70th anniversary of Mt. Edgecumbe, Founders Week featured performances by Byron Nicholai, the Cody Blackbird Band, Dancers by the Sea from Port Lions, and dance and drum groups from Mt. Edgecumbe and Sitka.
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