JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced that a proposal to open a salmon hatchery on Baranof Island has been rejected. The March 29 rejection ended a disagreement ...

The Sitka District Ranger, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, has closed the Redoubt-Necker Bay zone to mountain goat harvesting. The closure was effective Wednesday evening, ...

Sitka’s Baranof Island Brewing Company has gone under, taking $637,000 of public funding along with it. The popular business had one of its best summers ever, according to its owner, but was unable to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 50-year-old hunter has been found dead in an apparent brown bear mauling on an island in southeastern Alaska, authorities said Thursday. Tad Fujioka, of Sitka, was reported ...

I live in the town of Sitka, which is on the outer coast of Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. Unlike the Tlingit and Haida people, I am not Native here. But since I first set foot in Sitka about ...

The Alaska Department of Transportation is seeking bids for a $1 million to $2 million project to rebuild the harbor at Baranof Warm Springs, a small town on the east side of Baranof Island. According ...

The setting of Sitka, Alaska, in a tranquil bay on Baranof Island, is nothing short of spectacular. Tiny islands dense with evergreen trees dot the blue-green water, which is crisscrossed by dozens of ...

Sitka, Alaska, is where the state first officially became part of the US in an October 1867 treaty. Alamy Stock Photo At the height of summer, thousands of cruise ship passengers descend every week ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 50-year-old hunter has been found dead in an apparent brown bear mauling on an island in southeastern Alaska, authorities said Thursday. Tad Fujioka, of Sitka, was reported ...