SITKA — Thursday was the 75th anniversary of an explosion that killed six men at a military construction site on Japonski Island. The death toll from the October 1941 blast remains the highest ...

Edgecumbe High School, Miller said. The building is on Japonski Island, which separates Sitka's airport and a local hospital from much of the rest of the community. "I was impressed by how big ...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A group of kids gathered in the Japonski Island boathouse, sporting safety goggles and noise-canceling earmuffs, to begin to assemble pieces of two dories in the making.

The sewer crisis Friday (02-02-18) happened below ground, when Thomsen Harbor Lift Station flooded and the city lost the ability to send wastewater to the treatment plant on Japonski Island.