The recent cold winter weather in Anchorage is expected to continue, and the Municipality of Anchorage is taking action to help protect the city’s homeless “in danger of serious harm and even death” from the cold by issuing a public health and safety emergency.
The director of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough’s Department of Emergency Services said the response operation to the 37-vehicle pileup on the Glenn Highway Thursday was one of the best he’s witnessed in his career.
The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness says that 1,760 people were homeless last year, and within that group, 335 were unsheltered, which means someone was living inside makeshift shelters such as pallets or tarp structures, camping in RVs and cars.
The Biden administration is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
