Author: Katherine Rose

Last month, the assembly adopted a list of directives from the Tourism Task Force. When the assembly meets tonight (6-25-24), it will discuss how to move forward in tackling some of those recommendations.

Last fall, a group of Sitkans tried twice to get an ordinance to limit cruise traffic to 240,000 visitors annually before voters. Both failed to make it beyond the city’s legal review process. Since then the group has organized into a nonprofit, Small Town SOUL. On June 18, they submitted their third petition with a higher cruise visitor limit –300,000 passengers annually, with a daily limit of 4500 passengers, starting in the 2025 cruise season.

The Sitka Assembly will hold a special meeting tonight (6-12-24) to determine its next steps as it searches for a new municipal attorney. 

The Sitka Assembly has a short agenda for its regular meeting tonight (6-11-24). The only item of unfinished business in front of them is whether to approve a change to city code that would allow multiple structures on a single property to share water service.

Wildlife troopers in Sitka shot and killed three brown bears that entered a garage last Friday (5-7-24) in the Jamestown Drive Area.  

The Sitka Assembly is backing a change to fisheries policy that would limit halibut bycatch in the Bering Sea. The move comes after a policy change last year at the national level led to a lawsuit filed against the National Marine Fishery Service.

A Coast Guard helicopter pilot from Air Station Sitka will try his hand at Jeopardy! for the first time next week. What is an exciting moment for Sitka trivia lovers?

After a year of work, Sitka’s tourism task force unveiled its recommendations for the assembly– 32 of them to be exact. The Sitka Assembly accepted the recommendations at a special meeting on Thursday (5-16-24).