Sitka News

Plans for a veterans cemetery have long been in the works in Fairbanks, a community with a large veteran population that is hundreds of miles from the nearest veterans cemeteries at Fort Richardson in Anchorage and at Sitka in Southeast.

A buildup of moisture in the soil likely caused a large landslide near the town of Sitka, according to a federal scientist who is taking a close look at Sunday's slide in southeast Alaska.

Passengers board the ferry Malaspina while vehicles wait to load at the Auke Bay terminal in Juneau.

Two Sitkans are safe after a massive landslide destroyed the cabin they were camping in Sunday morning.

The former site of the Redbout Lake Cabin, photographed a day after it was destroyed in a landslide on May 12, 2013.

KCAW reports Kevin Knox and his girlfriend Maggie Gallin escaped the slide Sunday while they were staying at Redoubt Lake, a National Forest Service cabin about 15 miles southwest of Sitka.

When you're a teenager, looks matter. But one girl in Sitka decided that those concerns were trivial, and shaved her head for a cause much bigger than herself.

McAdams was seen as a rising star within the party during his 2010 U.S. Senate bid.

Alaska Native artist Peter Williams will present a public lecture on the Subsistence harvest and use of sea otters in Alaska on Saturday, May 11, at 10 a.m. This lecture is part of the docent training series at the Alaska State Museum, but is open to the public.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Health Promotion department is hosting a new program, WELL-Balanced, which helps Elders improve their quality of life and remain independent.

The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus will offer a three-day workshop June 5-7 called "Educators and Scientists: Putting our heads together to get kids excited about science." The workshop takes place at the Sitka Sound Science Center.

"Are you sure you don't need a map?" The guy at the rental car agency looks confused, like I'd ad-libbed from the customer-service script he memorized.

A local legislative race in Alaska has caught the attention of national media, and is being held up as model for political change elsewhere in the country.

The metal band around this dead eagle's leg helped identify him as "Windex," so named in 1995 when he flew through a Sitka family's plate glass window.

A flare was found in the carry-on bag of a Sitka-bound traveler at Juneau International Airport Monday.

In our on-going series about culture in Alaska, we've been talking about how we define ourselves and live our lives as Alaskans.

That's just more than the 55.9 miles recorded in 2012 and slightly under the recent 10-year average of 61.7 miles.

It might feel like winter, but Alaska's 2013 salmon season officially gets under way on May 16, when the first runs of reds and kings are scheduled to arrive at Copper River.

An Alaska Native village corporation that operates a popular cruise ship destination has launched a commercial consulting service for others seeking help developing their own cultural tourism ventures.

Sitka will miss two Alaska Airlines flights a day during the month of May, in order to allow a paving contractor to replace the runway at the Rocky Gutierrez Airport.