Anchorage AK

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage illustrator Julia Ditto has won People Mover’s “Locally Rooted” bus stop art competition. Her colorful, stacked design highlights Chugach mountain peaks, berry slopes, forests, wetlands, salmon streams and Turnagain Arm, all tied to Dena’ina subsistence, and the land riders travel...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Irish Dance Academy of Anchorage is marking St. Patrick’s Day with performances around the community, giving students a chance to show off a discipline that demands strength, timing and practice. ‘A lot of hard work’. Student Zita Lindamood said she did not take to...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The National Weather Service has released its first spring breakup forecast of the year, flagging conditions along the upper Yukon and Tanana rivers that could lead to ice jam flooding. Kyle Van Peursem of the Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center said the combination of heavy snowpack...

There’s a repeat champion in the Iditarod. Jessie Holmes, the reigning champion, has won the 54th Iditarod, going back-to-back in dominant fashion. Holmes led the race nearly the entire way, reaching every checkpoint first, including White Mountain, where he took his final mandatory eight-hour rest before the last...

Authorities have confirmed the death of a man connected to a recent homicide investigation in Eagle River. The Anchorage Police Department says they found 61-year-old Matthew Thomas Becker deceased in a wooded area near the Eagle River Campground on Sunday. Becker had been a suspect in a homicide reported the day...

The search is ongoing to find the whereabouts of Kelly Hunt, a 19-year-old Shaktoolik graduate who has been missing since early January.

A coalition of fishing groups, conservation advocates and community organizations is calling for stricter oversight of midwater trawl fishing as the Alaska Board of Fisheries begins its Statewide Finfish meeting Tuesday in Anchorage. The Alaska Healthy Habitat Alliance has submitted three proposals 163, 164 and 165 —...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A man was arrested Saturday after authorities say he intimidated flight attendants and sparked a midair disturbance that led a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Taiwan to divert and make an emergency landing in Anchorage. Malcom Martin is charged by criminal complaint with interfering...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The death of a dog on a perennial Iditarod contender’s team has forced the scratch of the musher, race officials said Tuesday. Charley, a four-year-old female dog on Mille Porsild’s race team, has died, according to the Iditarod. Porsild has completed six previous Iditarod...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage physician Dr. Claribel Tan was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison on Count 1, health care fraud, and 60 months on Count 2, tax evasion, to be served concurrently. Tan will also serve two years of supervised release after prison. Restitution is expected...