Daniel Volland

An Anchorage housing ordinance does more than its title says

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

“I request your support for the ordinance.”

Anchorage paid to expand the crime center, then put off the rules

Kenai man says a gravel company mislabeled a salmon stream on his land

Three Sterling streets end at the river, and the neighbors have had enough

Anchorage will weigh housing density, not just price, when it sells land

Anchorage Assembly takes up a $599,000 crime center purchase and surveillance limits

Alaska's youth suicide rate reached a 10-year high in 2025, state data show

Abbott Loop rezone drew 223 notices and no comments; hearing is Oct. 6

“the zoning sets the condition for what types of uses would be allowed. What sets the condition for the zoning is our adopted plans”

Anchorage weighs surveillance rules 11 months after buying the system

The Anchorage Assembly may audit every member's spending

“Leadership has asked for a special audit of assembly member travel, so we are looking at that. We're also looking at how can we change our policy.”

Mat-Su assembly member proposes borough ban on license plate readers

Ordinance would make police ask before buying surveillance tech

Kenai will pay a high school pool's utility bills to keep it open another year

In 1997 Anchorage voters rejected automated camera enforcement. Its new surveillance system needed no vote.

Anchorage Assembly to mark Women's Equality Day tonight

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

Who controls Chugach access spending: trail advocates or the neighborhoods next door?

“we do not believe a small number of people should be able to leverage a large number of people by withholding entering into cooperative agreements.”

Anchorage Assembly rejects investigation into member Martinez's travel, 5-6

“I no longer believe the accusation document knowing what I know now. I think it is flawed.”

Anchorage wants a public board to steer its Chugach access money — and set qualifications for who runs it

Anchorage police oversight proposal dies without a second

Anchorage Assembly members frame Fairview grant as a civil-rights question

“Continuing to concentrate high-impact public services there risks repeating a pattern in which politically and economically marginalized neighborhoods are asked to carry burdens for the broader municipality.”

Anchorage Assembly resolution seeks school-funding scenarios and deferred maintenance analysis

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

“In the 2024 MTP, the project was programmed to cost around $694 million but”

Fairview grant dispute heads to Assembly with two members urging no vote

“The policy question is not whether the service is valuable. The question is whether the Municipality should continue placing region-serving social services in the same small geography, particularly Fairview and east downtown, when the Assembly has already adopted a policy of dispersed placement.”

Anchorage Assembly approves $750K True North grant after amendments fail and crisis-care dispute divides members

“I am flabbergasted and offended, and the trust that Member Scout mentions, I do not share anymore. We had multiple conversations where you intimated to us as the representatives of this neighborhood that you would not provide crisis care at this location You described the model that you described here tonight, but now you're saying, oh no, we will provide crisis care.”

Anchorage approved three ice-arena contracts. The office that oversees them has one employee.

Anchorage child care fund squeezed by programs moved from alcohol tax

Anchorage budget trade-off: schools OR general government, not both, may be coming

Anchorage Assembly postpones public safety commission to July

Anchorage Assembly recognizes Gun Violence Awareness Day after contentious debate over statistics

Anchorage School District to receive $37 million from state education funding increase

Anchorage secures $25M for Port of Alaska in state capital budget

Kenai approves $30K more for gas storage lease consulting

Assembly rejects resolution seeking larger Basher Trailhead parking lot

Assembly Approves Study of Wildfire Service Area for High-Risk Zones