Category: Southeast News

The Sheet’ka Kwaan dancers performed at Monday night’s event. (KCAW Photo/Ari Snider) Two years ago, Sitka replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, joining a growing list of state and local governments to make the...

“Being here in Sitka, and in Alaska in general, it’s obvious to us all that things are changing,” WhaleFest director Alex Thorne told the Sitka Chamber of Commerce. Hence the theme of this year’s WhaleFest Symposium: The...

Mole Harbor, off of Seymour Canal, is about 20 miles closer to Juneau than Sitka. But since the hunters had already spent a night without shelter, Sitka fire chief Dave Miller says that it was speedier for a team from Sitka...

Although Indigenous Peoples Day (October 14) has been formally recognized in both the State of Alaska and in Sitka (by 2017 proclamation), “Reconciliation Day” remains a grassroots effort to bring a more nuanced perspective to...

Board president Elias Erickson and newly elected board member Paul Rioux listen as superintendent Mary Wegner reads votes for other board leadership positions (KCAW/Rose) The Sitka School Board has a new member. Paul Rioux was...