Anchorage

The Anchorage Assembly recognized September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

The Anchorage Assembly recognized September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. The region including Anchorage has Alaska's highest number of suicide deaths.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

An Anchorage housing provider gets another year of federal help for disabled renters

Andrew Housing Co. in Anchorage received $132,800 from HUD to help house very-low-income renters with disabilities, part of a $184,392 total in federal housing awards posted this week.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage set to get $3 million to expand its crisis-response system

Anchorage is set to get about $3 million to expand its mental-health and addiction crisis teams, add assisted-living beds and start mobile opioid treatment.

by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read

Wainwright's fuel tank ran dry and the airlift is weathered in

Wainwright's fuel day tank ran empty Monday morning. An airlift of 80 drums sits loaded in Anchorage, waiting on a safe weather window north.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Air Force names 2nd Lt. Leah Borsich as airman killed in Cape Newenham crash

All eight aboard died in the Cape Newenham crash. The Air Force identified one as 2nd Lt. Leah Borsich, 23, of the 611th Civil Engineer Squadron.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage businesswoman gets 3.8 years for nearly $1 million in COVID relief fraud

An Anchorage businesswoman spent nearly $1 million in COVID relief meant for struggling businesses on herself. Now she's headed to federal prison for 3.8 years.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage would drop landscaping buffers for three- and four-unit homes

Anchorage would drop landscaping buffer requirements for three- and four-unit homes. The current rule calls for a 15-foot planting bed with trees and shrubs.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

Sitka may rewrite its rules for second homes on residential lots

Sitka's planning commission takes up a draft rewrite of its accessory dwelling unit rules Monday. The draft does not say which direction it goes.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage may have paid the state's traffic-signal power bill for 20 years

For 20 years, Anchorage never tracked the power cost for state-owned traffic signals, so it may have covered the state's share. Auditors flagged it before.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

Volunteers will build naloxone kits in Anchorage on Overdose Awareness Day

Volunteers will build naloxone kits in Anchorage on Aug. 31. Alaska recorded 238 opioid overdose deaths last year, down from 276 the year before.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

A small Alutiiq village corporation near Kodiak has built a $200 million federal business

A company owned by Ouzinkie, an Alutiiq village corporation near Kodiak, has built a federal business topping $200 million, its biggest presence in Florida.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Southcentral Foundation asks Congress to make IHS contract support costs mandatory

Southcentral Foundation asked Congress to move Indian Health Service contract support costs into mandatory spending to shield rural Alaska clinics from federal budget cuts.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Dan Sullivan endorsed Dan Sullivan over Dan Sullivan in Alaska's Senate race

Former Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan endorsed Sen. Dan Sullivan in a race that also features Daniel Sullivan Jr. He signed it "the OG Dan Sullivan."

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage considers naming Northeast Connector Trail after Karen Bronga

Anchorage's naming commission will weigh renaming a Centennial Park trail for Karen Bronga, a former Assembly member killed last month, at a Sept. 9 hearing.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Dunleavy names a fentanyl awareness day; Alaska recorded 339 overdose deaths last year

Dunleavy proclaimed a Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day. Alaska recorded 339 overdose deaths in 2024, down 5 percent, with fentanyl in about 73 percent.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage Assembly committees would consolidate under a draft from the Rules chair

Anchorage Assembly committees would consolidate and meet less often under the Rules chair's draft. Members have said the current load is too many hours.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

As a crime center vote nears, Anchorage weighs whether its privacy limits should be policy or law

Anchorage votes Sept. 1 on $600K for its police crime center. The chief says it adds no surveillance; a pending ordinance would put its privacy limits into law.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago3 min read

A Bering Strait Native corporation will staff anti-trafficking work for the State Department

A Bering Straits Native Corporation subsidiary won a State Department contract to staff anti-trafficking work, supporting its 8,200+ Native shareholders.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

Alaska lawmakers weigh whether to keep boards licensing dentists and barbers

Alaska lawmakers are weighing whether to keep the boards licensing dentists, chiropractors and barbers, and released the audits that will guide that call.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage police detail the limits on their Real-Time Crime Center

Anchorage police will delete license plate reader data after 14 days and limit searches to fewer than 10 employees, Police Chief Sean Case said.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Follows: Anchorage is considering expanding its surveillance network. The privacy rules are still a draft.

A proposed rule would presume national forest roads and trails are open unless the Forest Service documents a reason to close them

A proposed rule would presume national forest roads and trails, including in Alaska, are open unless the Forest Service documents a reason to close them.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage wildfire mitigation would be paid for citywide, researchers say

UA researchers will recommend all of Anchorage pay for wildfire mitigation, not just high-risk neighborhoods. Their full report is due in October.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 18

Anchorage police ask cardholders to check statements in tap-to-pay fraud case

Anchorage police want cardholders checking four date ranges for charges they didn't make. For the July charges, the 60-day dispute window closes in September.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Enstar tells legislators it's 18 days short of gas for winter

Enstar told legislators it's 18 days, about 3 Bcf, short of gas for a normal winter after two supplies fell through, with deals underway still leaving a gap.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Anchorage keeps blowing past overtime budgets stuck on a 2010 baseline

Anchorage's police, fire and transit overtime again ran over budget, largely because the budgeted amounts still rest on an unadjusted 2010 baseline.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

Driver kills Anchorage pedestrian at Seward Highway and Benson Boulevard, flees scene

A woman was killed by a driver who did not stop, at Seward Highway and Benson early Saturday. Her name is being withheld until family is notified.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Golden Valley was short on reserves 94 percent of the last 250 days

Golden Valley was short on generation reserves 94% of the last 250 days, and its mix models 17 shortfalls a year against a benchmark of one per decade.

by Alaska News2mo ago2 min read

AFN gives delegates another week to file convention resolutions

AFN gave delegates another week to file convention resolutions, now due Aug. 28. Divisive issues go to the Board rather than to the delegates.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

A magnitude 3.9 earthquake shook Southcentral Alaska near Hope on Friday night

A magnitude 3.9 earthquake shook Southcentral Alaska near Hope late Friday, felt by hundreds across the region but bringing light shaking and no damage.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

An Anchorage supplier shrank to six employees, and now it stocks federal Alaska

The Anchorage company filling federal orders for pens and clipboards had six employees in mid-2022. It now holds GSA and Navy work worth tens of millions.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage holds more property-appeal hearings, as hundreds of over-assessed homes get lower valuations

Anchorage holds six more property-appeal hearings next week, as about 660 over-assessed homes get lower valuations and the appeals board nearly doubles.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Charter plane crash at Cape Newenham radar site kills eight

Eight people died when a charter plane crashed on approach to the Cape Newenham radar site in western Alaska. Two pilots and six passengers were aboard.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A group backing Begich for governor has spent nothing, with a website waiting for the general election

A new outside group backing Tom Begich for governor has spent nothing so far, its only financial trace a $1,116 debt for a website that wasn't even live yet.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Follows: A new group formed to back Tom Begich for governor, days before the primary

Anchorage schools will open a new listening effort with a $42 million shortfall

Anchorage School District is launching a listening effort, opening with the $42 million shortfall it projects for 2028. Past rounds drew complaints.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Catch a pike in an Anchorage lake and you have to kill it

Catch a northern pike in an Anchorage lake and you have to kill it. They are invasive south of the Alaska Range and they eat salmon and trout.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Alaska lost 2,100 jobs in July, almost all of them government

Alaska lost 2,100 jobs in July from a year earlier, almost all of it government. Federal employment was down 1,300 and state government 1,000.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Follows: Alaska is losing federal jobs faster than almost any state

Alaska students will spend the year researching the veterans buried at Fort Richardson

Alaska students will spend the year researching the veterans buried at Fort Richardson National Cemetery, building a campus memorial and a walking tour.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage will decide whether two Eagle River properties can drop old development limits

Anchorage decides in September whether two Eagle River properties can drop decades-old limits, one to allow apartments, one to free up a business lot.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Ordinance would make police ask before buying surveillance tech

Anchorage police would need Assembly approval to buy surveillance technology, and the city could not join outside data-sharing networks, under a new ordinance.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

A $413 million cable would give Kenai and Anchorage a second power link

One transmission path links Kenai to Anchorage. A $413 million subsea cable would add a second, if AEA can raise the half that isn't federal.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read