Anchorage News

There are several Memorial Day events being held in Anchorage on Monday, May 28 to honor the men and women who died while serving in the Unites States Armed Forces.

A new residential facility for the homeless has quietly opened on South Cushman Street, offering living space to residents who may have gone a decade or more without it.

K eithley Middle School will be celebrating its 50th anniversary with a barbecue, car show, student entertainment and other activities from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday.

A generous Channel 2 viewer has now increased the reward for information leading to the return of a missing Wasilla service dog to $3,000. Ruth Sisk, who runs an urgent care center for people in Anchorage, was so moved by the plight of an 8-year-old boy with autism-like symptoms that she decided to help in the case.

An Alaska Snowmobile Salvage employee alerted co-owner Todd Anderson on Fri. morning thieves had hit his store, stealing and damaging an estimated $20,000 in merchandise and products they were repairing.

The deeply rutted dirt parking lot at The Dome -- soggy and challenging to drive especially during breakup -- will be getting a makeover, thanks to the state Legislature.

A black bear didn't go over a river but went to the woods after scampering through residential and industrial areas of Anchorage, Alaska, police said.

The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. will be expanding its investment into the home market.

Japan's Transportation Safety Board released their final report in Japanese concluding the probable cause of the serious incident was: During initial climb the inboard left hand engine's low pressure turbine stage 1 blades fractured, the debris of which caused further damage downstream.

A recent Anchorage study reports that our office market is one of the healthiest in the country with a vacancy rate of 6.1 percent, compared to 16 percent nationally.

Julia O'Malley writes a general interest column about life and politics in Anchorage and around Alaska.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska_Chugach State Officials say the McHugh Wayside Facility has been closed because two bears are guarding a moose carcass in the area.

Hundreds of community members lined the streets in Fairbanks honoring veterans and military personnel Saturday, May 12, 2012 during the Salute to Our Military Parade.

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A Boy Scout field trip turned into the surprise of a lifetime for two Wisconsin kids who were reunited with their Army soldier parents as they unexpectedly returned from Afghanistan.

The Justice Department said Friday that its investigators found no misconduct in the decision of federal prosecutors to abandon the teen sex crime case against disgraced former Veco Corp.

Anchorage police say a 45-year-old woman died when she was struck by a van on a Glenn Highway onramp.

Anchorage police say a 45-year-old woman died when she was struck by a van on a Glenn Highway onramp.

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Testimony in the Fairbanks militia trial turned deeply personal and emotional Thursday morning with a series of witnesses who said they were helpless to stop Schaeffer Cox and Coleman Barney from slipping deeper and deeper into the ideology that has landed them in a federal courtroom.