KCAW - Sitka

Sitka Community Hospital CEO Jeff Comer didn’t attend a scheduled discussion with the Sitka Assembly on Friday after allegedly being assaulted.

The activities budget for Sitka High School may have reached a tipping point and it could force the end of some programs.

The Sitka Assembly was briefed on the hospital’s finances during a closed-door session Tuesday. The hospital’s chief financial officer has resigned. Very little information has been released to the public so far.

Sitka’s new hospital CEO Jeff Comer said he’s developing a strategy to expand Sitka Community Hospital into a regional health care provider.

The Blue Lake Expansion Project came to a formal close in Sitka Wednesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the new powerhouse

More than half a dozen mines have been proposed in B.C., and several sit in the headwaters of rivers flowing into Southeast Alaska.

Guy Fawkes Day doesn’t mean much to anyone unless you happen to be British — or in one special case in Sitka — a brown bear.

A trip to the coast usually means you’re going to see sea stars, but a mysterious disease is killing them along the West Coast.

In 19 years, the couple adopted 12 children and actively pursued opportunities to wed. The first came in 2004, when city officials in San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses.

Quick thinking by an off-duty Sitka firefighter may have prevented a boat fire from becoming a major disaster in a local harbor last week.