As crews continue to cautiously work through debris searching for the three victims of Tuesday’s deadly landslide in Sitka, it’s clear that the event could have been much worse.
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A national park’s missing stories find new home in Glacier Bay Tlingit tribal house
A $3 million dollar Tlingit tribal house is being constructed on the shore of Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay–likely the first time the park service has funded a tribal house.
Update: missing 3 presumed dead in Sitka landslide, Walker to visit
Three people are still missing after heavy rain triggered a series of landslides in Sitka Tuesday morning .
Audit details failures in Haines Police Dept.
The $22,000 audit, by Gregory Russell of Soldotna-based Russell Consulting, is pushing the borough government to reckon with how to improve the many shortcomings of the Haines PD.
New science shows Sitka geologically separate from rest of Alaska
Sitka sits on a different chunk of the Earth’s crust than the rest of Alaska. Decades of scientific research have led to a report and map showing where the faults lie.
Update: Four people missing after early morning landslides in Sitka
Flash flooding also caused sinkholes, road closures, and damaged homes. The National Weather Service recorded over 2-and-a-half inches of rainfall between 4 and 10 a.m.
UPDATE: Officials estimate 2,500 gallons of diesel spilled into Sitka Sound
Teams from the city, state, and Coast Guard are working to contain and clean up the spill and to find out what caused it.
Weaver: Petersburg rock pit explosion was suicide attempt
Mark Weaver was ordered to stay away from Petersburg as he serves out his five years on probation. He must also pay a $10,000 fine after last year’s incident.
Cirque dancing class lassos Sitkans into the show
The circus is coming to Sitka, but the performers aren’t from out of town. They are ordinary citizens, who in the past two years, have learned to climb, swing, and soar.
Historic Gold Rush trail gets Google mapped
A hundred years ago, to hike to the Klondike gold fields via the Chilkoot Trail meant a grueling trek carrying a required one ton of supplies, enough to last a year.