Anchorage resident united with family members who escaped Afghanistan

FastCast daily digital headlines for Friday, June 2, 2023.

Protestors marched Thursday morning at Alaska Department of Transportation headquarters, rallying against what they say are toxic herbicidal chemicals being used by the agency to kill weeds along Alaska roadways.

The USDA’s Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis M. Taylor stopped in Alaska on her way to Japan for an agricultural trade mission.

Friends say Toscano was an experienced hiker who knew the area but who rarely hiked alone.

In South Anchorage, known as District 6, there is a building that the city is calling Section 11. It’s a structure designed to house the most vulnerable homeless people. But not everyone is in favor of it.