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Sitka High School’s DDF team scores (another) state championship title

by KCAW News | Mar 13, 2023 | The Morning Interview

For the seventh year in a row, Sitka High School's Drama Debate and Forensics team scored big at the Alaska State Championship DDF Tournament. Coach Christian Litten and two state champions, Aiden LaFriniere and Isabelle Schmetzer, joined KCAW's Erin Fulton to discuss the competition and the group's first trip to nationals this summer. Listen here: Read More

Watch Live: Alaska Supreme Court to hear appeal on 2021 herring ruling

by KCAW News | Dec 13, 2022 | Local News, Syndicated

On Wednesday, December 14 at 9 a.m. the Alaska Supreme Court will hear oral arguments appealing a 2021 decision in the Sitka Tribe of Alaska's suit against the Alaska Department of Fish and Game over management of the Sitka Sound Sac Roe herring fishery. Watch the proceedings live here: Read More

New COVID-19 cases and contact tracing: a Q&A with Sitka’s public health nurse

by KCAW News | Jul 17, 2020 | Local News

Sitka health officials have released more information on the four coronavirus cases announced on Friday (7-17-20). The following is a transcript of a Q&A with Public Health Nurse Denise Ewing, who gives more insight into recent cases and explains some changes to how contact tracing is conducted throughout the state.Read More

City to receive over $14 million in CARES Act funding

by KCAW Staff | May 19, 2020 | Local News

The Sitka Assembly is meeting tonight at 6 p.m. in a hastily-convened work session, to review how it may distribute CARES Act funding. The Alaska Legislature met in Juneau on Monday and ratified a spending plan for over $1 billion in federal relief funds in the state. Now, municipalities have to come up with local plans. Read More