Alaska is packed to the gills with amazing outdoor destinations, but this small town is one of the best thanks to several ...

Some of the 2,000 (on average) butts collected during a recent clean-up of Sitka’s Crescent Park strip and downtown. (Amanda Roberts) As Sitka heads toward a record cruise season, with over ...

The Serenade of the Seas in Sitka on July 21, 2021, the first port call of the curtailed 2021 cruise season. The 632 passengers had room to spare on the ship, which has a capacity of almost 2,500.

SITKA — On a recent weekday morning, the weather forecast was looking pretty good for Sitka. The breeze was light, and what people in Southeast Alaska call a sucker hole — a patch of blue sky in an ...

Alaska’s former Russian capital, Sitka, will remove a prominent statue of Alexander Baranov, the de facto first governor of Russian America. In a 6-1 vote Tuesday night, the Sitka Assembly approved a ...

SITKA, Alaska (JTA) — It is a peculiar mystery that has endured for more than 120 years in the shadows of Mt. Verstovia on Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. At 611 Lincoln St. in the heart of ...

None of the residents of Sitka seem to have a definitive answer, but they do pass around a story that starts in 1899 and has helped lead to a local culture of coexistence. SITKA, Alaska (JTA) — It is ...