Anchorage

Bristol Bay students can apply for a December leadership forum

Bristol Bay high school students have until Oct. 9 to apply for a youth leadership forum in Anchorage in December.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Bristol Bay Native Corporation is taking pitches for its December leadership forum

Alaska Supreme Court hears appeal over Kotzebue officer's immunity in 2022 shooting

Supreme Court heards Kotzebue case

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage board sets seven property appeal hearings for next week

Anchorage owners filed a record 1,953 assessment appeals. The city had already found about 660 homes over-assessed before the hearings began.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Anchorage tax appeal hearings continue into September, past the board's stated season

Alaska Democrats ask Anchorage court to strike Tagle from November ballot

Alaska Democrats are back in court to remove Republican Jose Tagle from the ballot, after Dahlstrom certified him over an APOC finding against him.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

An ordinance would tighten oversight of Anchorage's staffing overruns

Anchorage's government has run past its budgeted position count five years running. Three Assembly members want future overruns to need the mayor's sign-off.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A complaint tied to the Tshibaka-led Accountability Project challenges the Democratic ticket's disclosures

Nothing says airtight like a campaign-finance complaint built on magazine clippings and a hunch. Regulators will hear it Thursday anyway. Nothing's proven 🤷

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago4 min read

Wasilla weighs a plan to nearly double its airport runway

Wasilla wants to nearly double its airport runway in a $279 million, 20-year plan — a bid to serve bigger planes as the Mat-Su Valley keeps growing.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Alaska marijuana board revisits under-21 rules after Craig, Klawock checks failed

Alaska Marijuana Control Board will revisit rules keeping under-21s out of pot shops after compliance checks in Craig and Klawock found every store violated the ban.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Alaska moves to cap what workers' comp pays for creams and patches

Alaska wants to cap what workers' comp pays for creams and patches — after minor formula tweaks were billed at hundreds or thousands of dollars.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Three Alaska governor candidates agree on the problems, diverge on government's role

Three candidates for governor agreed Alaska faces serious problems but split on solutions at a Tuesday forum. The fourth, Bernadette Wilson, did not attend.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago7 min read

Alaska Supreme Court says a judge may remove a plaintiff from his own trial, after warnings

Alaska's Supreme Court ruled for the first time that a judge can remove a disruptive party from a civil trial, even the one who filed the suit.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

State clears three Anchorage officers in the fatal shooting of Emil McCord

State prosecutors cleared three Anchorage officers of criminal liability in the fatal shooting of Emil McCord, 112 days after it happened.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage weighs $2.8M state payment, most of it for winter shelter

Anchorage cut $1 million in contracted surge shelter beds when alcohol tax revenue fell short. State money would put them back ahead of winter.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Sep 1

Anchorage marks Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month, now recognized in state law

Anchorage marks Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month for the third year, and the first under state law. Alaska's Hispanic history runs back to the canneries.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage Assembly takes up next year's budget priorities

The Anchorage Assembly takes up its budget priorities for the coming year Tuesday, along with two appointments to city commissions.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Free medical, dental and vision care comes to Sullivan Arena Sept. 19-20

Free medical, dental and vision care is available to anyone at Anchorage's Sullivan Arena Sept. 19 and 20 — no ID, insurance or income required. Come early.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage weighs paving and expanding the Basher Trailhead lot

Anchorage would pave and expand the 16-car Basher Trailhead lot to 52 spaces. Staff back it but warn it could draw more cars if parking isn't priced.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Alaska congenital syphilis cases hit a record in 2025

Alaska recorded 14 cases of congenital syphilis in 2025, the most ever, in a disease preventable with a test and a shot. Native infants were hit hardest.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Matanuska Electric posts its list of $451,000 in unclaimed capital credits

Matanuska Electric says more than $451,000 in capital credits sit unclaimed by current and former members, with one owed roughly $15,000.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Sep 1

Three UAA hockey teams become the first teams in the Hall of Fame

Three early-1990s Seawolf hockey teams will be the first teams ever inducted into UAA's Hall of Fame, which has honored only individuals since 2001.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

An Anchorage housing ordinance does more than its title says

Anchorage's shop-house ordinance would also shrink the minimum commercial lot to about 2,700 square feet. The city says it outgrew its own title.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage Assembly has one meeting left before a transit safety deadline

Anchorage has one meeting left before a federal deadline to fix its transit safety plan. Assaults involving security staff rose by half last year.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

AT&T's parking lot at the Anchorage port could stay until 2041

AT&T's parking and storage yard at the Anchorage port could stay through 2041, though rent has only been set for the first five of those 15 years.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

A third of Anchorage's buses are past their federal life span

A third of Anchorage's full-size bus fleet is past its federal useful life. The Assembly votes Sept. 15 on replacing six of the 26 aging buses.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage candidates would need signatures to get on the city ballot

Anchorage candidates would need voter signatures to make the ballot. It would take 63 in one Assembly district and 162 in another about the same size.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage Assembly ordinance restores parking permit rule its planning commission voted 8-0 to cut

Anchorage's planning commission voted unanimously to drop a parking lot restriction. The Assembly sponsors put it back in and will take it up Oct. 20.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage company wins patent for adjustable pipeline support

Two Anchorage inventors have patented a pipeline support you can raise or lower with a hand crank — a simple fix for supports that shift as permafrost thaws.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Five Alaska legislators and candidates amend financial disclosures in two days

Five Alaska legislators and candidates amended financial disclosures this week, adding two Anchorage houses, nonprofit board seats, and a spouse's name to their filings.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage weighs who decides when cold-weather shelter opens

An Anchorage ordinance up Sept. 15 would let the health director decide when emergency shelter opens, replacing the current 45-degree trigger.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Wells Fargo keeps shrinking in Alaska, where it's the only bank in six towns

Wells Fargo keeps closing Alaska branches — nine since 2019, the latest in Anchorage. In six Alaska towns it's the only bank, and could leave them with none.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Jun 22

Bering Sea pollock companies are hiring at an Anchorage event

Companies that catch and process Bering Sea pollock are hiring at an Anchorage job event Oct. 29, for jobs that pay a share of the catch.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

A Soldotna council member's consulting firm earned up to $1 million last year

Soldotna pays Daniel Nelson up to $5,000 a year to sit on its city council. Governments paid his consulting firm up to $1 million last year.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center

The Indian Health Service transferred ownership of the Alaska Native Medical Center to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Aug. 24, 2026, opening access to uncapped federal lease payments while the legal authority for the conveyance remains undocumented.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 24

Follows: Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center

Anchorage could shrink its minimum lot size by two-thirds under a pending ordinance

Anchorage could cut its minimum single-family lot to a third of current size and let buildings cover 70 percent of it. The hearing is Sept. 15.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Jun 9

Anchorage clears a substation plat on quake-prone Port ground

Anchorage approved a plat for a new Chugach Electric substation at the Port on ground its own maps rate as highly likely to fail in an earthquake.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Sep 2

Follows: Port of Alaska seeks road realignment for Chugach Electric substation

State tax office flagged seller of Anchorage cannabis concentrate license as non-compliant

Alaska flagged a marijuana license seller as non-compliant on taxes. Her sworn statement listed no debts. What the board did is not on the record.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readFrom Feb 17

An Anchorage company will run the ATF's supply operation

An Anchorage company won $5.3 million to run the ATF's supply operation. Its federal small-business certification expires six weeks into the contract.

by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read

An Anchorage firm staffs the State Department's internal watchdog

An Anchorage company owned by the Kodiak regional corporation holds a contract worth up to $75 million to staff the State Department's internal watchdog.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

A tiny Bering Sea tribe runs its own healing court, from the island to Anchorage

A tiny tribe in the Bering Sea runs its own healing court for people facing addiction, and a federal grant will extend it to members who've moved to Anchorage.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

An Anchorage company keeps the heat and power on at NIH's Bethesda campus

An Anchorage company runs the heating, cooling and power plant at NIH's Bethesda campus. It just won $5.9 million to upgrade the ventilation.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read