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Anchorage Assembly weighs retiring 43-year Sullivan Arena ticket surcharge
Anchorage Assembly votes Tuesday on retiring a 43-year-old ticket surcharge at Sullivan Arena, replacing it with a higher revenue deposit from the new operator.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Anchorage Assembly set to vote on $360K for senior and disability services
Anchorage Assembly votes Tuesday on $360,000 in state grants to sustain the Aging and Disability Resource Center through next June.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Anchorage trails plan is 27 years old. A replacement is in the works.
Anchorage is replacing its 27-year-old trails plan with a new guide for trail building and maintenance across Anchorage and Chugiak-Eagle River, aiming for approval this summer.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Drums from Japan and West Africa, together on one Anchorage stage
Japanese taiko group Chokoma joins Anchorage's Oni iLu West African drummers at Discovery Theatre Aug. 1 — two thunderous traditions, one stage. Tickets $32.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
A Democratic group brings AI-analyzed canvassing to Alaska's Senate race
Democrats are using AI to analyze canvassers' notes and guide outreach in Alaska's Senate race — an approach privacy advocates warn can profile voters without consent.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
A fish truck rolled on the Seward Highway, cutting off the road into town before the Fourth
A fish truck rolled on the Seward Highway late Friday, scattering its load and closing the road into town for hours — just as crowds arrived for the Fourth and Mount Marathon.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Anchorage Assembly to consider buying two wetland lots for under $30,000
Anchorage Assembly votes July 7 to buy two wetland lots in Laurel Acres for under $30,000 to generate credits that offset wetland damage from future development projects.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Anchorage takes another run at 'missing middle' housing
Anchorage may let owners along transit corridors build duplexes and fourplexes on single-family lots — a narrower second try at a denser-housing idea that stalled last fall.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
An Anchorage shelter contract has grown from $1 million to nearly $5 million in a year
A homeless-shelter contract the Anchorage Assembly approved at $1 million a year ago has grown to nearly $5 million. It votes on another $500,000 increase Wednesday.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read
Anchorage Assembly introduces resolution to initiate first-ever removal proceeding against member Martinez
The Anchorage Assembly moved to remove member George Martinez. This first-ever proceeding follows findings of perjury and ethics violations.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read
Anchorage weighs selling a fire-damaged lot below market to a housing nonprofit
Anchorage votes July 7 on a below-market sale of a fire-damaged lot to a housing nonprofit: a blight fix to some, a fairness question to others after the bid failed.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Nearly $1 million for Anchorage's safety net goes to an Assembly vote
Anchorage's Assembly votes July 7 on nearly $978,000 for nine nonprofits that feed the homeless, shelter abuse survivors, and help families and kids in crisis.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Anchorage planners count 21 stalled projects as Assembly weighs housing overlay
Anchorage votes July 7 on a zoning change to let "missing middle" housing — duplexes, townhomes, smaller-lot homes — rise along its transit corridors.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Alaska's development bank meets behind closed doors on the Arctic Refuge, a mining road, and a port
Alaska's state investment bank meets privately July 8 on its biggest bets — Arctic Refuge oil, the Ambler mining road, Port MacKenzie — with public money on the line.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read
The road rebuild behind Spenard's makeover
Anchorage is planning to rebuild Chugach Way — the road running through the heart of Spenard's revival, where old strip clubs and gas stations are becoming new housing.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Anchorage hunters can zero rifles at free sight-in day July 8
Alaska Fish and Game hosts a free rifle sight-in day July 8 at Rabbit Creek Shooting Park, 4 to 8 p.m., with a gunsmith and chronograph on site.
by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
A Knik Arm bridge easement survives — and so does the debate
Anchorage kept a Knik Arm Crossing easement on a port plat — a small vote that keeps alive a long-debated bridge backers call vital resiliency and skeptics call unfunded.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Anchorage let federal grant recipients off the hook, audit finds
An audit found Anchorage didn't penalize grant recipients who missed goals — one repaired 1 of 20 promised homes — just as the city moved to route millions more through the same office.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Anchorage cuts a top City Hall job it just created
Anchorage is scrapping a senior City Hall post it created two years ago — the administration says it fixed the broken operations the job was invented to fix, so the job can go.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
Crash closes New Seward Hwy southbound at Rabbit Creek Rd
Two people died Wednesday morning when three vehicles crashed into Potter Marsh on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage, closing the road for hours.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
Fred Meyer owes Anchorage back taxes — so the city grabbed its liquor licenses
Fred Meyer owes Anchorage back taxes, so the city held its liquor-license renewals hostage until it pays — an unusual squeeze on a national chain, not a struggling small business.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
Alaska's Medicaid self-audit deadline lands amid a fraud crackdown
Alaska is telling Medicaid providers to audit their own billing and repay overpayments — weeks after charging 15 people with about $1.83M in Medicaid fraud.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read
Ship Creek closes for 10 days as a king shortfall hits the hatchery
Anchorage's Ship Creek closes to all fishing July 3–13. A weak king return isn't meeting hatchery broodstock goals that supply fisheries across Southcentral, not just the creek.
by Bill AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read
Why Anchorage's longest-held shelter animals are the ones most at risk
A $3,000 grant is small, but the problem behind it isn't: Anchorage's shelter keeps overfilling, and its longest-held, hardest-to-adopt animals are the ones most at risk.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
Anchorage's airport is finally expanding its parking
Relief may be coming for one of Anchorage's everyday headaches: the airport is expanding its overflow parking lot, with the work due done by mid-November.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
The man who made the case for JBER's new water plant didn't live to see it open
JBER's new water plant now serves 40,000 people, replacing a system running since 1957. Mac Nason, who wrote the case that funded it, died in 2021 and never saw it built.
by Melinda Communities.Newsadded 3mo ago1 min read
Alaska's makers take over the museum lawn this summer
The Anchorage Museum lawn turns into an open-air Alaska makers market July 17 — ceramics, wood, jewelry, and the chance to meet the people behind the work.
by Alaska News3mo ago1 min read
Soccer came home this summer — Where to watch the World Cup in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is happening across North America with viewer-friendly Alaska timing, and Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau have free or easy watch parties through mid-July.
by Cale Green3mo ago3 min read
One Anchorage restaurant keeps getting caught serving with expired cards
Alaska cited six bars and restaurants for servers pouring with expired training cards — one Anchorage spot for the fifth time in four years, now risking its liquor license.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
Decades-old rules cap buildings at a Tudor Road corner. The Assembly may start to lift them.
SCF spent nearly a year of review just to build a greenhouse. Now the Assembly weighs easing 40-year-old building limits at its Tudor and Patterson corner.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago2 min read
Anchorage approved three ice-arena contracts. The office that oversees them has one employee.
Anchorage approved three ice-arena contracts — then admitted the office overseeing them has one employee and no finalized policy. Audits had flagged the gap before.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
Anchorage's library puts Hoopla on a budget with new borrowing limits
Anchorage's library has put Hoopla on a budget: borrowing's been cut in half, and on busy days the app simply runs out of money and closes until morning.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
A 50-year airport lease, and the federal funding line behind it
A bush-plane lease at Anchorage's airport runs exactly 50 years — not 51 — because FAA rules say a longer one could cost the airport its federal funding.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
Alaska throws a nine-day baseball party for America's 250th
For nine days, Alaska swaps the rink for the diamond: free kids' clinics, midnight-sun ball, a "Sandlot" screening, and a Fourth of July finish in Fairbanks.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
Beluga Fire triggers nightly FAA flight restriction near Anchorage
FAA restricted airspace over the Beluga Fire northwest of Anchorage nightly through June 28 to protect firefighting aircraft from the surface to 2,000 feet.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read
A judge weighs whether Alaska gets two Dan Sullivans
Will the real Dan Sullivan please stand up? We're gonna have a problem here. Y'all act like you never seen two Sullivans before. J's all on the floor, like the "S" walked in and slammed the door.
by Cale Green3mo ago3 min read
A Spenard Pot Shop Changes Hands as Anchorage's Market Cools
A Spenard dispensary is rebranding under new owners — a small sign of a bigger shift, as Anchorage's pot tax take slips and the early gold-rush crowd thins out.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
A New El Green-Go's Is Coming to East Anchorage
East Anchorage is getting another El Green-Go's — the liquor license has cleared every hurdle, and only a quiet July 21 deadline stands in the way.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
Anchorage child care fund squeezed by programs moved from alcohol tax
Anchorage's child care fund says two programs loaded onto it are starving its mission. The board wants them moved to the alcohol tax — which is shrinking even faster.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
The EPA's No. 2 told Alaska's resource industry the door is open — for now
The EPA's deputy came to Anchorage to tell the resource industry the feds are clearing the way — and the message from the room was: hurry, before the politics flip.
by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago2 min read