[content id=”79272″] ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and Hanson Maritime are responding to a sunken vessel near Sitka that had no people on board. The Coast Guard received the initial report of a 34-foot-long fishing vessel having sunk in Sitka Sound while sitting unmanned at anchor Friday night. […]
A few weeks ago, Sarah Gravem lowered a “ravenous, terrifying predator” from her boat down to the ocean floor off Sitka. Then she released it. In a slow-motion drama, sea urchins fled as a pizza-size sunflower sea star oozed toward them. Gravem explained: “I release one right in the middle and watch everybody freak out. […]
SITKA – Royal Caribbean Group announced its 2023 support of the Sitka Sound Science Center’s Scientists in the Schools (SIS) program, a partnership between local scientists and K-12 classrooms to engage students of every age in science and the ecosystems around them. SIS has operated in Sitka for the past two decades, providing students hands-on […]
(Sitka, AK) –Last week Retired Superior Court Judge Michael McConahy sentenced 79-year-old Richard McGrath to 17 years with 15 years suspended for the 2019 sexual assaults of three women in Sitka. Dr. McGrath was sentenced pursuant to a plea agreement to one count of sexual assault in the third degree. The court declined to find “manifest […]