Anchorage AK

Officials hope to update the decades-old logo with an imagine the can be used in a host of formats.

Anchorage’s public safety sector is hiring across several agencies — from airport security to emergency dispatch. If you’re steady under pressure and want to serve your community, these roles are worth a look.

Delta Air Lines is fundamentally reshaping its West Coast summer network as volatile energy markets force a retreat from high-mileage seasonal corridors.

Looking to add a furry friend to your family? Anchorage shelters are full of wonderful cats waiting for their forever homes — from cuddly kittens to wise seniors. Here are some of the sweet faces hoping to meet you soon.

The Anchorage Forestry Sciences Lab is set to close, and the future of the Pacific Northwest Research Station lab in Juneau is uncertain, since the U.S. Forest Service began a national restructuring last week. The agency announced last Tuesday that its headquarters will move to Utah, the existing regional structure...

For thousands of years, Indigenous nations across North America have passed down their histories through art, oral tradition, ceremony and everyday life. Stories were carried in beadwork and carvings, in the rhythms of drums and dance, and in the careful craftsmanship of baskets, pottery and tools made to last generations.

Alaska gymnastics, just like the state, has its own way of doing things. Head coach Marie-Sophie Boggasch knows that better than anyone. Boggasch, originally from Germany, moved to the U.S. to compete for the University of Alaska, Anchorage from 2013-16. She has since stuck around in Anchorage, beginning her career as assistant coach and now as head coach. Boggasch owns her own airplane to...

Homeless numbers have remained roughly the same in Anchorage for the last few years and city officials say many people who have been homeless for a long time need addiction treatment or behavioral health care. Now a new muni-owned treatment center is getting some people that care, while housing them in their own individual microunits. The transitional living program is a new municipal...

Alaska has a way of stripping the word “outdoorsy” of any self-congratulation. About 20 minutes north of downtown, the city of Anchorage gives way abruptly, replaced by the sheer scale of the Chugach and Talkeetna ranges’ 8,000-foot peaks, the long pull of Highway 1 into the Mat-Su, and a cold, clarifying sense that human comfort has a short reach here. It’s the kind of...

Anchorage Police are investigating a fatal crash involving a pedestrian who later died from his injuries. Police say the incident happened at about 10:45 a.m. on March 28, 2026, along the Old Seward Highway between Tudor Road and East 40th Avenue. Officers responded to the scene after receiving reports of...