Sitka, AK

If approved by voters, Sitka’s summer sales tax rate — that’s from April through September — would increase from 6% to 6.5%.

It's been an interesting season for the Petersburg High School Swim team. The team had to do dryland training in the gymnasium for the first week and a half of practice. This past weekend in Sitka was only their third meet of the season. No home meet this year due to ongoing maintenance at the community pool, meaning regions and then state are the final two upcoming meets. Despite all of...

In this newscast: Heavy rain and high winds are slated to continue slamming parts of Southeast Alaska through Tuesday night. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch as well as high wind advisories and warnings, concentrated mostly in the northern panhandle. Meteorologists expect impacts in Juneau, Sitka, Gustavus, Elfin Cove, Haines, Skagway and Yakutat; Alaska released more than a billion-and-a-half hatchery fish last year, according to the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, t

Former Sitka state lawmaker and Democratic candidate for governor Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins shares his vision for Alaska’s future.

A Ketchikan fire station is back in operation after a fire damaged the facility; The empty St. Ann's building in Juneau has grant funding to be developed into a senior care center; Alaska's ferry laundry is done by people incarcerated a Lemon Creek Correctional Center for less than $2 per hour; A group of Sitka's Mt. Edgecumbe High School alumni, parents and educators want to see improvements at the state-run boarding school

In this newscast: Three candidates seeking to become Alaska's next governor say they plan to make Juneau their home base if elected in next month's general election; A prominent shack on a derelict pier in downtown Juneau was torn down today; Public comments closed Tuesday on a federal proposal to lift a roadbuilding ban in national forests across the country, including the Tongass National Forest; A birding group in Sitka will spend Sunday mornings this winter strolling through the woods to see