Southeast

During the event, five ceremonial Kiks.ádi robes were unveiled along with a new song honoring the herring.

One Sitka man has died and another sustained injuries after being thrown from their skiff while subsistence fishing for herring eggs on April 9.

For Hyder, the only road out runs through British Columbia. That makes this town of about 50 very close with its Canadian neighbors.

If the initial paperwork is OK, the activists will have 30 days to collect nearly 3,000 signatures from local voters to get three cruise ship questions on the fall ballot.

Despite decades of efforts by various organizations, Sitka has no homeless shelter.

Tom Gamble is determined to see subsistence harvesting of herring eggs continue — by working to protect herring stocks and teaching kids how to harvest eggs. This spring, he shared some of his knowledge in a herring camp for kids.

Federal managers are warning that there may not be enough sockeye salmon to allow a full season of subsistence fishing on the Stikine River.

Dunleavy signed a resolution asking Congress and President Biden to exempt Alaska from a federal law that requires cruise ships headed to Alaska to stop in Canada.

But a federal judge agreed with the plaintiffs who argued that the federal agency didn’t follow the law when it approved the timber sales, because it hadn’t provided site-specific information on areas that could be logged.

The bill would add about 251 acres of state land, including the cemetery, to Funter Bay State Marine Park. It heads to the state Senate next.