Suzanne LaFrance

Anchorage weighs who decides when cold-weather shelter opens

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

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

A fourplex would install no landscaping under this Anchorage ordinance

“A hypothetical R-2M lot adjacent to a B-1A zoned lot would need to have L2”

Anchorage police force falls hardest on Alaska Native residents

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

Fifteen Anchorage Assembly members will have their spending accounts examined in a 9-2 vote

Anchorage's rewritten emergency plan adds six annexes, voids all earlier versions

“brings 18 us into compliance with national accreditation standards in several areas of 19 emergency management”

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

Anchorage Assembly weighs $305,000 more for South Goldenview road repairs

Anchorage fills a watershed commission seat before its sunset date

$5.5 million for Anchorage public health nurses, WIC and child care inspectors

Anchorage legalized triplexes. Now it wants to drop their landscaping requirement

Anchorage wants $202,468 back from the owner of the Big Timber Motel it demolished

Anchorage's park rezone meets the Knik Arm bridge route

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

Anchorage Assembly to vote Sept. 1 on two $4 million AWWU on-call repair contracts

Anchorage ordinance would drop 45-degree shelter trigger, raise site cap to 200

Anchorage Assembly designates Sept. 20 as LGBTQ Veterans Day

Anchorage Assembly to take up $4.7 million grant to plan Port of Alaska fuel terminal replacement

“Every federal dollar for the PAMP is a win for our entire state, because a modern, resilient facility means a more secure and affordable future for Alaska.”

Anchorage youth can apply for $1,000 to $5,000 climate project grants

Anchorage's new emergency plan still has no chapter for disease outbreaks

Anchorage permits more housing than last year, but from a near-record low

Cook Inlet Housing Authority chief backs Anchorage housing code changes his projects use

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

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

“with the expansion of the kind of real-time policing and the license plate readers and all the cameras on all the intersections, there's a lot of conversation about, um, are those public records”

Anchorage wildfire mitigation would be paid for citywide, researchers say

Ordinance would make police ask before buying surveillance tech

“the expansion of the kind of real-time policing and the license plate readers and all the cameras on all the intersections”

All-ability play center opens in Midtown Anchorage, partly with marijuana tax money

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

“APD's technology does not and will not use facial recognition.”

A Hillside road area may spend far more than planned after erosion damage

A Sitka Street railroad crossing rebuild will cost Anchorage $91,000 more than agreed

The Anchorage Assembly recognized September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

Anchorage will pay to steer people toward treatment instead of jail, using opioid-settlement money

Anchorage approves $40,000 to update Merrill Field's airport layout plan

More Mat-Su families are paying at the door to keep their power on, as their co-op runs ahead of budget

Anchorage Assembly to mark Women's Equality Day tonight

Anchorage opens contract talks with one of its unions

Eagle River hillside lot could lose the development limits set in 2002

“The Planning Department finds that the approval criteria for the rezone are met and recommends approval of the case.”

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

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

“Tearing down the Big Timber is a huge win for nearby neighborhoods”

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

Dunleavy says he is ending gas line special session, blames legislative leaders

“Energy costs hit every single household budget in our community, and families who are already struggling with the cost of living, higher heating and electric bills can be the last straw.”

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

Anchorage's assessment appeal surge reaches hearings next week

“We have received about 1,800 formal appeals, which is substantially more than last year.”

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

A faulting cable under the Loussac Library would cost the city a permanent easement

A Midtown hotel vacant since a 2019 fire seeks approval to serve alcohol

One rough winter tore up Hillside roads, and self-funded neighborhoods are footing the bill

“significant road erosion caused by an unanticipated level of ice accumulation”

Merrill Field gets nearly $954,000, mostly federal, to plan its future