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KCAW Prize Drawings: click on the links for rules and winner info. Alaska Seaplanes Drawing – ended 10/8/23. Alaska Airlines Spring 2024– ended 3/24/24. Russell’s Kayak Giveaway – ended 6/30/24. Alaska Seaplanes Fall 2024 – ended 9/29/24
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4 天之前 · The Sitka Assembly wants to overhaul the commercial use of local trails and parks, but it’s proved to be a big job. After a first look at the plan, the assembly on Tuesday (12-17-24) sent it back to City Hall for more work.
Evolving Education - KCAW
2024年12月21日 · In many small Alaska towns, schools are the backbone of the community. They educate youth as well as bring residents together for events. But with changing times, comes changing needs in the way we approach learning. In CoastAlaska’s news series, “Evolving Education,” reporters take a deeper ...
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KCAW-FM is a non-commercial community radio station owned and operated by Raven Radio Foundation, Inc. of Sitka, Alaska. Since signing on the air in 1982, KCAW has broadcast a diverse and vibrant program schedule to the rural Southeast Alaskan communities of Sitka, Angoon, Elfin Cove, Kake, Pelican, Port Alexander, Tenakee Springs and Yakutat, as well as a wide expanse of the coastal fishing ...
Fuel leak in Sitka prompts fast response - KCAW
4 天之前 · Multiple government agencies responded to a fuel spill in the Indian River area on Friday (12-20-24). Rachael Krajewski is an environmental program manager with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. She told KCAW that her department was notified of an out-of-use leaking heating oil ...
Sitka's elementary schools made the Alaska Reads Act work last …
2024年12月20日 · An initiative introduced in elementary schools last year has had some startling results. The Alaska Reads Act passed the legislature with an ambitious goal: to have every child reading by third grade. Sitka's schools were on track to hit that target -- …
Assembly postpones vote on plan for commercial use of city lands
2024年12月18日 · The Sitka Assembly wants to overhaul the commercial use of local trails and parks, but it’s proved to be a big job. After a first look at the plan, the assembly on Tuesday (12-17-24) sent it back to City Hall for more work.
Thread director: Paying ‘true cost’ of child care is a community effort
2024年12月6日 · The childcare crisis in Sitka – and across the rest of the state – is an economic problem, according to Stephanie Berglund, the CEO of Thread, a statewide child care resource agency. She spoke to the Sitka Chamber of Commerce on December 4.
Biennial 'Sharing Our Knowledge' conference offers opportunity to ...
2024年9月9日 · Sharing Our Knowledge is a biennial conference about Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian clans and tribes. It is open to the public and this year it will be held in Sitka on the SJ Campus, September 11-15. Yeiltʼoochʼ Tláa, Matthew Spellberg and Ljáaḵkʼ Alice Taff joined KCAW for the Morning Interview to discuss the highlights of […]
New study of salmon abundance prompts a rethink of endangered …
2024年11月26日 · Some new research is challenging the established scientific thinking about why an endangered population of killer whales in Puget Sound continues to be in jeopardy. The animals were at the center of a 4-year legal battle that nearly brought an end to the commercial king salmon fishery in Southeast Alaska. The lawsuit is resolved, but the science behind it is continuing to evolve.