Katherine Rose is a reporter based in Sitka, Alaska, focusing on local news and community issues. She has written for Alaska Public Media, Raven Radio - KCAW, and her work has also appeared in KTOO. Katherine's reporting covers a range of topics including tourism, local government, transportation, and community engagement.
Preston is the artificial intelligence that powers the Intelligent Relations PR platform. Meet Preston
Sitka, United States (Local)
Katherine Rose's coverage focuses on local government, travel & tourism, and crime in Sitka, Alaska. She frequently reports on government announcements, legal policy regulation, evolving stories, and breaking news related to these topics.
If you have insights or expertise in local government decisions and policies impacting communities or the travel industry within Sitka specifically, such as cruise tourism regulations or community initiatives involving utility credits and strategic planning progress feedback survey programs; your input might be valuable for her reporting.
As Katherine primarily covers local news in Sitka with a focus on government decisions and their impact on the community along with developments in the travel & tourism sector including crime-related issues; consider tailoring your pitches to align closely with these areas of interest.
This information evolves through artificial intelligence and human feedback. Improve this profile .
GCI said technicians were working to temporarily reroute Sitka’s internet traffic with hopes to restore basic voice and text service and limited internet sometime Friday.
By: Katherine Rose
An “atmospheric river” is moving through Southeast Alaska this weekend, and Sitka will be just on the edge of areas receiving heaviest rainfall.
By: Katherine Rose
A widespread internet and cellular outage in Sitka continued into the weekend. Sitka has been without internet access since Thursday (8-29-24) after an undersea fiber optic cable broke, cutting off the island from the online world.
Sitka has been without internet access since Thursday after an undersea fiber optic cable broke, cutting off the island from the online world.
The cable ship Cable Innovator docked in Port Angeles, Wash. in May 2022 (Creative Commons/DeVos Max)
By: Katherine Rose
Although she stopped paying her professional membership dues for a while when she had a baby, municipal attorney candidate Rachel Jones has an unblemished record with the Alaska Bar Association.
By: Robert Woolsey, Katherine Rose
Sitka High Freshman Finn Mullin applies for a card at the Sitka Public Library. According to parent-advocate Beth Short-Rhoads, no students were able to check out books from the school district’s library on the first day of school. “That’s unacceptable,” she told the Sitka School Board. Librarian Maite Lorente looks on. (KCAW/Rose)
By: Katherine Rose
Sitka needs more tourism data- that’s one of the conclusions the tourism task force reached as it tried to develop next steps for the city’s response to a boom in cruise tourism. When the Sitka Assembly meets tonight, it will consider how to plan a new research initiative focused on collecting data on the impacts of the visitor industry, honing in on three areas: community, economy, and environment.
The Sitka Assembly has advanced one candidate for the open municipal attorney job to a final review.
By: Katherine Rose
The Cable Innovator departing Sitka Sound Friday (9-13-24) for a return trip to Victoria, B.C. (Joe Serio photo)
(833) 317-6278 
