With apologies to all those hardworking, glinting Alaska towns that smell like float plane fuel and briny air, the guidebook is right: Sitka is everyone's favorite town in Southeast Alaska. There's ...

The Sitka Sound Science Center is an easy addition to your trip to Sitka. Walking distance from everything downtown, visiting ...

The small red plastic sign on the wall behind the Avis car-rental counter set off alarm bells in my brain: “A cleaning fee may be charged due to fish smell or having animals in the car or trunk.” ...

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 ...

The Sitka Assembly narrowly rejected an ordinance authorizing a $5,000 city contribution to the St. Michael's Cathedral renovation project. The measure failed 4-3 on final passage at Tuesday night's ...