Before 1974, women couldn’t secure a mortgage without a male co-signer. Single women accounted for 20% of all homebuyers nationally in 2024; single men accounted for 11%. Bria Myers, 27 ...

Before 1974, women couldn’t secure a mortgage without a male co-signer. Single women accounted for 20% of all homebuyers nationally in 2024; single men accounted for 11%. Bria Myers, 27 ...

Alaska will recognize March as Women’s History Month, under a new law signed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday. “This legislation encourages schools, communities, and organizations to honor ...

Alaska will recognize March as Women’s History Month, under a new law signed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday. Gov. Mike Dunleavy signs Senate Bill 43, declaring March to Women’s History Month in ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - On Friday, the Alaska state legislature passed a bill that establishes March as Women’s History Month in a vote of 33-2. Senate Bill 43 — sponsored by Sen. Elvi Gray Jackson, D ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The day was April 1, 1974, in Sitka, Alaska, when Porky Bickar woke up and informed his wife Patty that today was the day he’d been waiting for. “That morning dawned, and he ...

Was kind of interesting. I’d never seen that before.” Thomsen came to Sitka not too long after graduating from nursing school in Iowa, toward the end of a tuberculosis epidemic that began when ...

Rep. Carolyn Hall, D-Anchorage, speaks in support of a bill designating March as Women’s History Month in state law on March 28, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Legislature ...

Enough signatures have been gathered to put a cruise limit ballot out to Sitka voters in a special ... any advocacy group must register with the Alaska Public Offices Commission.

Editor note: The herring roe fishery in North America operates in "short" or US tons, a measure that is written in full every time it is used. Metric tons are ...

Plenty of gear companies have tried to sell the cause for animal conservation to the rest of the world. Sitka Studio is now changing that game—for the better—with this high-tech jacket.