Raven Radio - KCAW, Sitka

07/19/2025

By now you’ve probably heard that the rescission package including $1.1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting passed. This isn’t the outcome we hoped for.

Our most important message today, though, is thank you. To everyone who called and wrote our representatives, who left messages with your donations and on our community quilt, who stopped us on the street to let us know you care about Raven Radio and want us around – we are so grateful.

The next steps will not be easy ones. But if there’s anything we know how to do in this mountainous place, it’s put one foot in front of the other and climb that next hill. We will do it as we’ve done everything in our 43 years as your station: with you, and for you.

Here’s to continuing forward – together.

07/18/2025

Tune in this Sunday at 2 p.m. for the Boreal Forest episode of Encounters on KCAW 🌲

IN HONOR OF WORLD LISTENING DAY, put on your headphones and join Richard Nelson for an acoustic wonderland, THIS SUNDAY, JULY 20th, at 2 pm . It's the "BOREAL FOREST" episode on RAVEN RADIO . Or stream at www.kcaw.org with fans from all over! (The official World Listening Day is July 18th, but why not celebrate natural sounds everyday?!!) See ya there!

07/18/2025

From January to May, about a dozen elementary students in Sitka shuffled down to Sage Beach each month, thermometers and pH strips in hand, to gather data. The students would throw a bucket attached to a long rope as far out as they could, and slowly pull the bucket back in, careful not to spill the water. Then they’d test it.

Youth in Sitka spent five months testing the water as part of an ocean acidification education program called 4-H pH.

07/10/2025

Forecasters with the National Weather Service say an atmospheric river will saturate the outer coast on Thursday (7-10-25), hitting the southern panhandle of Alaska with heavy rains.

An atmospheric river will saturate the outer coast on Thursday (7-10-25), hitting the southern panhandle of Alaska with the heaviest rains.

07/09/2025

We brought your messages to DC — help make sure your voice is heard by calling our Senators today.

Raven Radio’s General Manager Mariana spent two days in DC this week meeting with Alaska’s federal legislative offices to share the importance of our work and continued funding for public media. The Senate must vote on the rescission package that would claw back the next two years of CPB funding (including about a quarter of KCAW’s budget each year) by July 18th. NOW is the time to call and ask our Senators to oppose this bill.

06/27/2025

Wow! We feel your love.

We held a one-day, end of fiscal year on air pop up drive yesterday, and you made yourselves heard BIG TIME! In one day, you gave KCAW Sitka $28,735.

THANK YOU!

You can still come into the station and write a note on one of our colorful pieces of paper that we will be sending to Washington, D.C., as a quilt.

We’ll be here,
KCAW Staff

06/26/2025

A trail-building organization in Sitka has been recognized nationally for its work.
The Chief of the US Forest Service, Thomas Schultz, Jr., has handed Sitka Trail Works the agency’s Volunteer Program Leadership Award.

https://www.kcaw.org/2025/06/26/sitka-trail-works-wins-national-honor-for-volunteer-leadership/

06/25/2025

You’ve got a friend in Raven Radio. You rely on us and right now we are relying on you. Make a contribution today during our one-day drive (kcaw.org) and swing by to add to our community support quilt. Thank you!

06/24/2025

Around 300 residents turned out in Sitka on Saturday at noon (6-22-25) to rally in opposition to a bill moving in the US Senate that would expedite the sale of over 255-million acres of public lands – the lion’s share of it in Alaska (79,491,531 acres), including the Tongass National Forest.

https://www.kcaw.org/2025/06/23/sitkans-rally-in-opposition-to-proposed-public-lands-sale/

06/20/2025

Spend some of your sunny, solstice weekend with naturalist/author Richard Nelson, and millions of Alaskan mosquitoes!

Join Richard and a hoard of hungry, whining, biting mosquitos in Gates of the Arctic National Park. Learn about the fascinating role of mosquitoes in the Far North country of Alaska. It's the "MOSQUITO" episode, THIS SUNDAY, JUNE 22 at 2 PM, AKDT on Raven Radio or stream at www.kcaw.org with fans from all over. See ya there!

06/19/2025

A new exhibit of contemporary portraiture is opening in Sitka, but don’t bother looking for it in any of the community’s excellent museums or galleries.
This show opens 3 p.m. Saturday, June 21, in one of Alaska’s most famous watering holes, Sitka’s Pioneer Bar.

https://www.kcaw.org/2025/06/18/an-iconic-portrait-exhibit-opens-in-an-iconic-sitka-bar/

06/19/2025

Three longtime Alaska journalists are saying goodbye to the profession. What have they learned along the way, and how has their work evolved over the decades?