In a document prepared for the work session, the administration outlined its response, giving generally good grades for how city workers responded to the record-setting snowfall event.
A piece of legislation seeking to expand energy production on Alaska’s North Slope is heading for debate in the U.S. House of Representatives after moving out of the House Natural Resources Committee and being formally introduced on Wednesday.
A community conversation took place Wednesday night at the Anchorage Public Library as leaders from Anchorage and Houston, Texas, shared insight on systems and solutions that have effectively worked in other communities’ homelessness response.
Anchorage's marijuana retailers could soon be allowed to sell their products online, over the phone and through drive-thru windows if a pair of ordinances are passed by the Anchorage Assembly.
The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday night effectively overrode Mayor Dave Bronson’s veto of ordinance No. AO 2023-95 as amended in a vote of 8-2, with only assembly members Kevin Cross and Randy Sulte voting against it. The Assembly only needed eight votes to successfully overrule the mayor’s vetoes of the amended General Operating Budget for 2024.
Storm systems will swirl around the state through the week and into the weekend. A chance of snow for Southcentral comes again Thursday. Anchorage could see light snow by afternoon. Temperatures will also be dropping, and you'll notice the chill.
A third lawsuit was filed Monday against the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District since mid-November alleging that the district's practice of seclusion and restraint is illegal and targets students with disabilities.
The new contract covers the period between July 1 of next year through June 30 of 2025. It reflects an increase in compensation as well as working conditions for the approximately 3,000 educators working within the Anchorage School District.
A winter weather advisory has been issued for Anchorage. The advisory starts 3 a.m. Wednesday going through 6 p.m. For East Anchorage, Hillside, and along the Glenn Highway to Birchwood, snow could be 4 to 8 inches. For West Anchorage, 2 to 4 inches are likely. A winter storm warning is in effect for Thompson Pass.
Leaders of the Houston Coalition on the Homeless, as well as members of the Houston business community and that city’s top municipal official on homeless issues, were brought to Anchorage to advise on the new pilot program in Alaska's largest city.
Joseph Emerson is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on 83 charges of recklessly endangering another person — for each person who was on the plane — and one charge of endangering an aircraft.
After record-breaking snowfall in the early weeks of November, the Anchorage Assembly and administration will be recapping the municipality’s snow removal plan and its impact on residents, their safety and the economy of Anchorage.
On the heels of a visit to the nation's capital by supporters of ANWR development projects, Gwich'in Nation members landed in D.C. this week as part of an effort to protect and conserve the area.
Anchorage’s elections may be inadequately protected from interference, according to a report released by the city assembly on Nov. 17, and Assembly leadership said they will be proposing changes to municipal code at its regular meeting on Tuesday in what they say will better protect Anchorage’s election from interference.
Anchorage Assembly members, Mayor Dave Bronson, and much of his staff were at the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness headquarters talking about the plan, which is a $1.5 million initiative to transition 150 people out of cold weather shelters into more permanent housing.
A Healy Lake man remains missing more than two days after he departed in an all-terrain vehicle on what was supposed to be a short trip across rural terrain.
The Hawaiian voyaging canoe that set sail this summer from Alaska on a years-long circumnavigational journey around the Pacific is cutting its trip short — for now.
