JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard, good Samaritan rescued four mariners after their boat capsized in Glacier Bay National Park, Friday. At 12:04 p.m., watchstanders at the Sector Juneau command center received a distress alert in the vicinity of Muir Inlet from a digital selective calling device registered to Cats N Dawgs, a 66-foot privately owned […]
ALET Session 22-01 includes 20 Alaska State and Alaska Wildlife Troopers, 6 Village Public Safety Officers as well as recruits from several city, state, and borough police agencies (Sitka, AK)— In a graduation ceremony in Sitka 45 new law enforcement officers received their badges Saturday. The ceremony was closed to the public, but those that […]
The Sitka Police Department reports that they are investigating an arson case in Crescent Harbor that occurred on Friday night. SPD received a call reporting what appeared to be a boat on fire in the harbor at 11:25 pm Friday night and immediately responded to the scene. Upon arrival, they quickly found out that a […]
Sitka Dock welcomed Royal Caribbean International’s Ovation of the Seas and Princess Cruises’ Royal Princess, two of the largest cruise ships to visit Alaska, to port on Saturday, May 7, marking the start of a full cruise season after two years of pandemic interruptions. Ready to greet this season’s cruise travelers is the newly constructed Sitka Sound Cruise […]