Category: Southeast News

Investors looking to ship bulk water out of Sitka are asking for another extension. At a Gary Paxton Industrial Park board meeting last week (7-16-26), leadership from Arctic Blue Waters Alaska Inc. said climate change and...

Sitkans attend a work session on childcare on July 22. (KCAW/McKenney) Lowering the winter sales tax rate, and upping the summer one. That was a popular proposal discussed at a Sitka Assembly work session on Tuesday (7-21-26)...

Kevin Mosher was the first to announce a run for the mayor’s chair. (KCAW/McKenney) Current Sitka Assembly Member Kevin Mosher has filed to run for mayor. Mosher, who is two years into serving his third term on the assembly, has...

Firefighters tamped out a fire at the Sitka Hotel on Friday night.Around 10 p.m. on Friday, the fire hall received reports of smoke in the building of the Sitka Hotel alongside an alert from the hotel’s fire alarm company. In an...

A finalist for Sitka’s municipal administrator position has dropped out of the running. In an email on Monday, city staff announced that Jenny Alber, who was planning to visit Sitka later this month, has withdrawn her name from...

Darren McAvoy holds a handful of biochar. (KCAW/Salemo) Seven Sitkans are taking turns chucking wood scraps into a round metal pit. They’re hauling them from Darren McAvoy’s truck bed where twigs, branches, and logs tower high...