KCAW Staff, Author at KCAW

Alaska Airlines jet kills brown bear at Yakutat’s airport

The Boeing 737 was slowing down when the flight crew noticed a sow and a cub crossing the runway, according to a statement from Alaska Airlines. After the bears passed underneath the aircraft, the captain felt an impact to the left side of the plane and noticed the dead sow 20 feet off the center of the runway.

Sitka Salmon Shares’ Marsh Skeele wins ‘Food Hero’ award

The Alaska Food Policy Council has awarded Sitkan Marsh Skeele an Alaska Food Hero Award. Skeele is a co-founder of the successful community supported fishery, Sitka Salmon Shares.

New Xbox video game brings Tlingit voices to the forefront

It’s no secret that many television shows, movies and video games inaccurately represent Indigenous communities, if they portray them at all. Realistic depictions of life in rural Alaska are also rare. But a new video game set in Southeast Alaska seeks to turn back the tide on that history.

Sitka remains on high alert with 3 new coronavirus cases and 25 active cases

Case counts have been rising dramatically across Alaska over the last month, but until recently, active case counts in Southeast and Sitka have remained low. Sitka has reported 37 new cases in the last two weeks, prompting places like the fire department and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska to close their doors to the public.

Salmon Nation’s virtual festival offers solutions from California to Alaska

A little over a year ago, organizers for the Salmon Nation project met in Sitka to talk about how to bring a diverse group of people scattered along thousands of miles of coastline together. Starting Sunday, the group will meet for the second time to share ideas and solutions and to celebrate with music and entertainment.

Increasingly warm rivers are melting Arctic sea ice, new study shows

Warming rivers play an increasingly important role in melting sea ice and rising air temperatures in the Arctic, according to a new study published Friday in the journal Science Advances. Using complex modeling techniques, a team of international researchers found that heat from rivers melted as much as 10 percent of Arctic sea ice between 1980 and 2015.