A caravan of about 50 cars and trucks drove through Sitka this Saturday (2-14-22), as a show of solidarity with truckers who've been protesting coronavirus mandates in Canada.
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The Chichagof Island community of Pelican is negotiating the sale of the city-owned processing plant to its current tenant, Yakobi Fisheries, the sole processor in town.
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Dispatch received a call this morning at around 8:30 am, that blood and a weapon had been found on one of the harbor’s floats.
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It’s been a frustrating winter for ferry service in Southeast Alaska. A combination of supply chain issues, and an aging fleet, has made marine highway schedules especially sporadic this year. KCAW spoke with one Sitka resident about the far reaching effects of Alaska’s failing ferries.
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Two Southeast communities are struggling to cope with the aftermath of a cold snap that hit the region with severe winter weather last week.
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For many, the monotonous early days of the pandemic were a time filled with new hobbies, projects and general escapism. In Sitka, the role playing game, Dungeons and Dragons offered a handful of young people their own fantasy laden escape.
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Two Sitkans captured the footage of a lifetime when they witnessed an avalanche near Herring Cove on Sunday (1-2-22).
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For millennia, Native Alaskans have relied on the bounty of the sea to sustain their way of life. But what happens when those same traditional foods are potentially deadly? If you’re in Southeast, you turn to the Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s Environmental Research Lab.
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Since Friday (12-3-21) , Sitka has reported two more coronavirus cases according to data from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. The new cases keep Sitka in high alert, with a seven day case rate of 10.
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It was 1971 when Mary Jo Lord-Wild stopped off in the small community of Elfin Cove to visit a friend. She had no plans of staying, let alone starting a career in volunteer weather observation. But 50 years later, as one of the few year-round residents in Elfin Cove, and the recipient of one of the Weather Service’s most prestigious awards, Lord-Wild acknowledged her life has been a bit like the weather itself: unpredictable.
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