Anchorage AK

‘Ignite a force in everyone’: JBER personnel honor the lives of first responders during annual 9/11. To honor those who served and passed, service members and first responders wore heavy gear as they climbed 110 stories. Anchorage Firefighters take part in 9/11 step challenge. Updated: 2 hours ago. Fully...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Anchorage Fire Department Wildfire Division is looking to get public feedback by the end of the month. Stephanie Dufek, AFD Wildfire Division project manager, said the survey is meant to give the fire department an idea of what the community’s wildfire concerns are and help them learn...

A man shot by Sand Point police last week was arraigned in Anchorage Thursday after his arrest at Ted Stevens International Airport on Wednesday. According to court documents, 42-year-old Sand Point resident Duke Ogata faces two felony drug charges, manufacturing or delivering heroin and possessing methamphetamine...

Alaskan businesses and several rural communities are expected to benefit from a new air-cargo route designed to deliver freight more quickly, reliably, and economically. Northern Air Cargo (NAC) has announced a new direct freight route from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) to Ted Stevens Anchorage...

Vessels are lined up in Whittier's harbor on July 16, 2025. The harbor look out onto western Prince WIlliam Sound, which is packed with melting glaciers and narrow fjords, where steep slopes are at risk of tsunami-generating landslides. Whittier, a 60-mile drive from Anchorage, is one of the sites most at risk,...

We now know the identity of the man killed in a shooting earlier this week in Spenard. Anchorage Police say 23-year-old Amona Sam died Tuesday night after an altercation at an apartment complex on West 26th Avenue. Investigators say the suspect, 20-year-old Matthew Siavalua, pulled out a firearm during the...

Alaska State Troopers and volunteer searchers have so far been unable to recover the bodies of three heli-skiers caught in an avalanche last spring in the Chugach Mountains near Girdwood. The March 4 avalanche killed 39-year-old Florida resident David Linder, 39-year-old Montana resident Charles Eppard and...

Anchorage is home to a new free farm stand. Resident Theresa Brown started the stand in mid-August and it quickly grew in popularity. She said she created the farm stand for Anchorage residents who need to stretch their food budgets. “It's single moms. It's people who have homes, who have...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - This week’s We The People, hosted by Justin Mattson and Joe Allgood, brings us all across the state. In 1906, the Office of the Governor opened in Juneau after being moved from Sitka. This happened six years after Congress authorized the move. Sept. 10:. In...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Providence Center for Child Development preschool students scurried around Providence Alaska Medical Center on Thursday during the 22nd annual Mini Heart Run, a run dedicated to encouraging youth to get active and move. “Encouraging kids this young to start developing those important...