Suzanne LaFrance

People Mover puts up its first artwork bus stop sign on Muldoon Road

Mat-Su bans license plate readers before the borough owns any

Anchorage schools model a $9 million budget gap for fiscal 2028

Anchorage officials fail to agree on shared school-closure committee

Anchorage's required 2027 school contribution rises to about $138 million

Anchorage's property tax cap rises $18.5 million for next year

A Dena'ina artist's work is headed for downtown Anchorage's signs

Anchorage Assembly shelves mayor's homebuyer tax break 11-1

Anchorage delays surveillance rules as sponsors and mayor remain divided

Housing on the Tozier Tract would likely close off a planned road

Anchorage's new-home tax break would reach pricier houses under a revision

A Merrill Field WWII memorial crumbles with no one responsible

Anchorage assessment appeals hit a record, and the board filled up to cope

Anchorage police shoot carjacking suspect after East 37th Avenue standoff

Anchorage police report eighth officer-involved shooting of 2026 in two sentences

Mayor's substitute puts Anchorage's surveillance network before the Assembly Tuesday

“But police chiefs and administrations change, and departmental policy can change with them, in the absence of law requiring otherwise.”

Anchorage grant would keep HIV testing and outreach going through 2027

Anchorage owns an aging arts center, and repairs keep outpacing the budget

An inspector cited Anchorage's ice rinks for safety valves a decade old

Anchorage's port cargo surcharge nearly triples to fund a rebuild

“Securing these funds for the Port of Alaska means we are able to reduce the costs of goods for all Alaskans”

18 condo units draw 46 percent of Anchorage's housing tax exemptions, report says

“THE ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.”

The mayor wants two more members on a naming commission that cannot meet

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

Anchorage weighs who decides when cold-weather shelter opens

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

Landmine publisher takes copyright-strike complaint against APD to Assembly Tuesday

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

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