Anchorage AK

The Dimond Volleyball team earned our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after winning four consecutive elimination matches before beating Colony 30-20 in an if-necessary super set to claim the Class 4A state championship at the Alaska Airlines Center. The Lynx also beat Colony in five hard-fought sets to force...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Anchorage School Board voted not to close Lake Otis Elementary school and Fire Lake Elementary School at their meeting on Tuesday night. Fire Lake Elementary School survived in a vote of 3 in favor of closure to 4 against. The board voted 1 in favor of closure to 6 against to keep Lake...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage residents are anxiously awaiting new information related to the mayor’s proposed sales tax. At Tuesday night’s regular Assembly Meeting, the sales tax proposal was moved forward through the ‘consent agenda’. The consent agenda is a way for the Assembly to move items forward and to...

Alaska rewards brave travelers with northern lights, wild coastlines, and the occasional chill that does not come from the weather. In downtown Anchorage, one historic hotel invites you to listen closely, where soft footsteps seem to land just ahead of your own. I checked in with curiosity, then stayed for...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An Anchorage Rheumatologist and her husband have pleaded guilty to running a years-long healthcare fraud scheme that prosecutors say brought in more than $12 million and involved lying to patients about what substances they were being injected with, billing insures for medications they...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage firefighters responded Tuesday evening to a house fire on Hideaway Lake Drive, where crews say the homeowner escaped and two dogs were rescued, as flames spread through the lower levels of the home. The call came in at 6:02 p.m. according to the Anchorage Fire...

Researchers say vessel strikes are a major threat for whales, including in the waters off Alaska. A new technology is aiming to change that by using AI, thermal imagining and marine observers. Matson's container ships bring cargo and cars from Tacoma, Washington to Anchorage, Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. The company...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Fish and Game officials rescued a moose after it became entangled with a backpack in its antlers. “This is the first backpack I have seen on a set of moose antlers,” Cory Stantorf, Anchorage Area Biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said.

Could Anchorage see a new sales tax, and a blow to ranked choice voting in Juneau, on today's Morning Edition Extra.

The new Palmer office brings Nvision Architecture closer to client meetings for an ongoing renovation at Birchtree Charter School while opening the door to future work in the area. Anchorage-based Nvision Architecture is growing regionally by establishing a new office in Palmer. The second office is meant to increase...