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Suzanne LaFrance

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Suzanne LaFrance

Mayor · Municipality of Anchorage

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Also known as:Mayor LaFranceLaFrance

Mayor of the Municipality of Anchorage. She served two terms on the Anchorage Assembly, including two years as chair, and has more than 25 years of private-sector management experience. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Portland and a master's from Purdue University.

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

Alaska News5d ago

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

Alaska News6d ago

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

Alaska News1w ago

Anchorage officials fail to agree on shared school-closure committee

Alaska News1w ago

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

Alaska News1w ago

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

Alaska News1w ago

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

Alaska News1w ago

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

Alaska News1w ago

Anchorage delays surveillance rules as sponsors and mayor remain divided

Alaska News1w ago

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

Alaska News1w ago

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

Alaska News1w ago

A Merrill Field WWII memorial crumbles with no one responsible

Alaska News2w ago

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

Alaska News2w ago

Anchorage police shoot carjacking suspect after East 37th Avenue standoff

Alaska News2w ago

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

Alaska News2w ago

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.”
Alaska News2w ago

Anchorage grant would keep HIV testing and outreach going through 2027

Alaska News2w ago

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

Alaska News2w ago

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

Alaska News2w ago

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”
Alaska News2w ago

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

“THE ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.”
Alaska News2w ago

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

Alaska News2w ago

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

Alaska News2w ago

Anchorage weighs who decides when cold-weather shelter opens

Alaska News2w ago

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

Alaska News2w ago

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

Alaska News2w ago

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

Alaska News3w ago

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”
Alaska News3w ago

Anchorage police force falls hardest on Alaska Native residents

Alaska News3w ago

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

Alaska News3w ago

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

Alaska News3w ago

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

Alaska News3w ago

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 News4w ago

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

Alaska News4w ago

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

Alaska News4w ago

Anchorage fills a watershed commission seat before its sunset date

Alaska News4w ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

Anchorage's park rezone meets the Knik Arm bridge route

Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

Anchorage Assembly designates Sept. 20 as LGBTQ Veterans Day

Alaska News1mo ago

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.”
Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago

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

Alaska News1mo ago