Charges of Driving Under the Influence have been leveled against the driver of the skiff that collided with a charted rock in the vicinity of Kanga Bay last month on Saturday, December 27th. 20-year-old Chatham Conner was issued a summons to appear in Sitka Court for “charges of DUI, Misconduct Involving Weapons IV, Assault IV, and […]
One man was injured and a woman passenger is OK after their 17-foot skiff plowed into rocks 10 miles south of Sitka in Kanga Bay on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard reports. Although it is unknown what the two boaters were doing when their watercraft ran into the rocks in Kanga Bay on Saturday, Coast […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard assisted a mariner aboard the 43-foot fishing vessel Stardust, which was taking on water southeast of Japonski Island in Sitka, Wednesday evening. A Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team 38-foot Training Boat Special Purpose Craft crew and a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew along with a […]
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska (STA) is alarmed but not surprised at the recent press release by Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) that the Sitka Sound herring stock biomass is in sharp decline. The projected biomass of 44,237 tons is a 50 percent reduction from the 2013 post season biomass estimate and a […]