Katherine Rose
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If approved by the voters, the ordinance would set an annual cap of 300,000 cruise passengers, a daily cap of 4,500 passengers and limit port calls to six days a week. -
Seven vets dispute local officials’ claim that euthanizing six dogs and cats by gunfire last summer was an acceptable practice under veterinary guidelines. -
The killings follow a breakdown of shelter operations last summer that left police supervising the facility.
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Parents of a Mt. Edgecumbe High School student who died last spring have been trying to recover his personal belongings as they seek closure and accountability. -
The volunteers, who ran the shelter for nearly a year but were locked out this summer, want city officials to let them back in. -
It could be close to a week until repairs to the fiber optic cable, between Sitka and Angoon, are finished. -
Sitka has been without internet access since an undersea fiber optic cable broke Thursday, cutting off most residents from the online world. -
Sitka had 4,000 cruise passengers on Thursday. Many businesses reported having to resort to cash-only transactions to make sales. -
The whale was one of two found dead last month in the Icy Strait area near Hoonah, according to NOAA biologists. -
On June 9, a mariner fouled his anchor in Herring Cove. Every time he tried to move the anchor, a little oil sheen and debris would pop up.
