Anchorage

Man taken to hospital after stabbing at Boniface Parkway and Debarr Road

A stabbing in East Anchorage sent an adult man to the hospital with upper-body trauma Sunday, Aug. 16

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Downtown Anchorage owners face $1.15 million in assessments for services the city doesn't cover

Downtown Anchorage property owners will pay about $1.15 million this year for their own snow removal, cleaning and security. Objections are heard Sept. 15.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Three Hillside road districts are dipping into savings as maintenance costs outrun their funding

Three self-funded Hillside road districts are drawing $145,000 from their own savings for road maintenance, as costs outrun what they collect in taxes.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage shifts $3.46 million from Denali Street to a Fairview pedestrian boulevard

Anchorage dropped a Denali Street walking project and moved $3.46 million to Fairview, where Hyder Street would become a pedestrian boulevard.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

A Seward Highway rebuild that doubled to $1.4 billion is back on Anchorage's plan, over objections

A Seward Highway rebuild that doubled to $1.4 billion is back on Anchorage's plan on a 3-2 vote, over objections about cost, priority and public input.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

The fate of the EPA veto blocking Pebble Mine is now in a federal judge's hands

A federal judge is deciding whether the EPA veto blocking Pebble Mine survives, a fight over Bristol Bay salmon with Alaska Native parties on both sides.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Alaska's ranked-choice fight returns to the Supreme Court, months before a repeat repeal vote

Alaska's ranked-choice voting returns to the Supreme Court next week, the latest round in a years-long fight, with a repeal already on the November ballot.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Anchorage airport would let CLEAR sell a faster security line

Anchorage's airport wants to let a private company sell a faster spot in the security line. Objections are due on a Sunday, when the office is closed.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage water chemical contract returns $855,400 higher with no explanation

Anchorage's water treatment chemical will cost $855,400 more than the bid the administration backed two weeks ago. It sits on tonight's consent agenda.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

An Anchorage cannabis grower's license hinges on a $12,761 tax bill, with tonight the deadline

An Anchorage cannabis grower could lose its license over a $12,761 tax bill, with tonight the Assembly's last meeting before the deadline to settle up.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

The state wants $293M to rebuild 5th and 6th, but the funding isn't settled

The state wants Anchorage to program $293 million to rebuild 5th and 6th avenues downtown, but where the money comes from is unsettled.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

An Iñupiaq village corporation from Wainwright is plugging orphaned wells in Wyoming

Olgoonik, an Iñupiaq village corporation from Wainwright now grown into a global federal contractor, won a $210K contract to plug abandoned wells in Wyoming.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A $3.73 million contract will fix water intrusion at the Anchorage VA

A $3.73 million federal contract will fix water intrusion at the Anchorage VA Medical Center — a year of work by a Palmer firm, starting in September.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

A Kodiak Native corporation's federal-contracting arm wins medical-billing work in Oklahoma

A subsidiary of Kodiak's Koniag corporation won a $1.26 million federal contract for medical-billing work in Oklahoma — the kind of business that funds dividends and scholarships for 4,300 Alutiiq shareholders.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read

One donor supplied 99 percent of the non-individual money behind Alaska's ranked choice repeal

Aurora Action Network gave $1.83 million to Alaska's ranked-choice repeal campaign, over 99 percent of its non-individual funding, but the group's true funding sources don't appear in public records.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Anchorage races a deadline to build a downtown library before a grant expires

Books are books are books are books; what one sees - where one looks. Construction stories have such hooks, but books in nooks are still just books.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Gusts to 65 mph on the Anchorage Hillside and in Eagle River through tonight

Guess what! Wind! On the hillside in South Anchorage and Eagle River especially =)

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Anchorage firm gets $77,900 more work at the Phoenix building it maintains

Anchorage firm Tunista Logistics Solutions won two federal repair contracts worth about $77,900 for a Phoenix building, part of a pattern of Alaska companies winning GSA work outside the state.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago2 min read

CDC orders $1.4 million more Atlanta construction from an Anchorage firm

CDC awarded Anchorage firm MTNT Construction $1.4 million in federal construction orders over five days in August, but the agency did not disclose what the work is for or where it will happen.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago2 min read

Koniag subsidiary lands State Department writer work, up to $1.6 million

Koniag Professional Services won a State Department contract worth up to $1.6 million to staff a writer and editor position, though the job is based in Virginia, not Alaska.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Mayor LaFrance faces a campaign-finance hearing over her 2024 expenditure reports

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance faces an APOC hearing Wednesday over how her 2024 campaign reported spending. A resident alleges 89 flawed reports.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

HUD awards $85,520 to Anchorage disability housing provider

HUD awarded Anchorage disability housing provider AASC Housing II Inc. $85,520 to subsidize rent for very-low-income residents with disabilities.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Trucks keep hitting the Tudor Road overpass. The rebuild is years out

Federal Highway Administration added $912,130 to rebuild the Seward Highway and Tudor Road interchange, one of Anchorage's busiest, with construction now targeted for 2029 or 2030.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Trump takes aim at Alaska's U.S. Senate Primary Election

Trump waded into Alaska's Senate primary, telling voters which of two similarly named Dan Sullivans to pick — flexing GOP-base clout in a state he carried.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago3 min read

An Anchorage firm will repair the State Department's headquarters

An Anchorage Alaska Native-owned firm won a federal order for emergency repairs to the State Department's headquarters — one of three out-of-state jobs.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Valdez lost its fight not to be lumped in with Mat-Su. All that's left is an $11,000 bill.

Valdez lost its fight not to be grouped with Mat-Su in one House district. All that's left is an $11,000 cost bill it's appealing to the state Supreme Court.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Anchorage tore down the Big Timber, a downtown blight a decade in the making

Anchorage tore down the Big Timber Motel last week, ending a decade-plus saga over a vacant downtown building that drew first responders for years.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 11

A Muldoon pot shop passed city rules, but a tribal youth program cites stricter state rules

A Muldoon Road pot shop passed city rules, but a tribal council says a stricter state youth-center buffer should block it. No one has settled which controls.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Follows: A Muldoon pot shop clears the park buffer, by measuring to the playground

Anchorage ordinance would put all Assembly license and assessment hearings under one set of rules

An Anchorage ordinance would give residents fighting a license suspension or property assessment one uniform set of hearing rules, in place of scattered ones.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

The Assembly says Anchorage hunger is rising. Its resolution does not say how it knows.

An Anchorage resolution up Tuesday says nearly 40,000 residents, including 12,000 children, face food insecurity — a rate that's climbed since last year.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

School boards move to retire a call to expand a dormant loan program

Alaska's teacher loan program has been dormant since 2018 — so the state school boards association is retiring its resolution that urged expanding it.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

An airman's idea for a cargo cart is out to bid at JBER

A cargo cart the Alaska Air National Guard is building started as one airman's idea — a simpler fix for the hard-to-move K-loader, from a base innovation lab.

by Alaska News3mo ago1 min read

Court says a tribe can't sue its health consortium in state court

The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Dot Lake Village can't sue the Tanana Chiefs Conference in state court — the health consortium has tribal sovereign immunity.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

The Alaska Supreme Court sent a 14-year Willow property fight back to Palmer, with the trail's path still undecided

The Alaska Supreme Court wiped out the judgment mapping an access trail around a Willow home and sent the 14-year fight back to Palmer, with the trail's path still undecided.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

UAA students to train inside ANTHC facilities under new workforce partnership

UAA students will train at Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium facilities under a new partnership, routing graduates toward one of Alaska's largest employers.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago2 min read

Anchorage's transit agency answered a records request by filming a computer screen

Anchorage's transit agency filled a bus-video records request by filming its own computer screen with a phone — grainy, silent, and flagged by the Ombudsman.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Anchorage's water-coagulant contract returns with a pricier winner

Anchorage's water-coagulant contract is back before the Assembly with a supplier $855K pricier than the first — and no explanation for the switch.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

A matter the Anchorage Assembly declared closed still draws a request for five minutes

Pastor Leon D. May asked the Anchorage Assembly for five minutes to testify about Assembly Member George Martinez at the Aug. 18 meeting, citing public comment limits at prior sessions.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Anchorage's assessment appeal surge reaches hearings next week

Anchorage property owners can appeal their 2026 tax assessments at six Board of Equalization hearings Aug. 18 through 21 at City Hall.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

The Assembly votes Tuesday on confirming a longtime trustee to run Anchorage's police and fire pension

The Anchorage Assembly votes Tuesday on confirming Glenn Cipriano, a longtime trustee, as director of the city's Police & Fire Retirement System.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read