Anchorage AK

One man is dead after a shooting in Anchorage this weekend, and two bears fight at the Alaska Zoo, on today's Morning Edition Extra.

Coffee prices have been on the rise, and local coffee shop owners in Anchorage say they are feeling the effects. Adam Legg, who helps run Refuge Coffee in Spenard, said costs have increased across nearly every part of the business. “Prices for almost everything in what we do have gone...

Back in the 1990s, many Anchorage residents purchased commemorative bricks that became a familiar part of Town Square Park’s landscape. Now, with a major renovation underway at the park, those bricks are being carefully removed one by one. City crews are working to preserve as many of the bricks...

Diners like this one quietly vanish nowadays. This one flatly refuses to play along. It just gets everything quietly right. Alaska still hides a few honest classics. The coffee stays hot and endless. Portions arrive far too generous to finish. I respect a place this sure of itself. Hearty comfort...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Construction of a new Marriot Hotel caused road closures in midtown over the weekend. A Street was completely closed off between 36th and 40th Avenue due to work being done underneath the road. Cherie Ball, secretary and treasurer for GMC Contracting, Inc., told Alaska’s News Source...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An Anchorage courtroom was packed Monday as the case involving a U.S. Army man from Anchorage facing homicide charges related to the death of his wife resumed. Spc. Zarrius Hildabrand, 23, of the U.S. Army is accused of fatally shooting his wife, 21-year-old Spc. Saria Hildabrand,...

The Anchorage Fire Department was alerted to the fire at 5:50 a.m. and remained on scene until shortly before 8 a.m.

The state’s campaign finance regulator has fined an Anchorage Assembly member more than $5,000 for allegedly violating campaign disclosure laws. Anchorage resident Vickie Clay filed a complaint with the Alaska Public Offices Commission against Assembly Member George Martinez in February alleging that Martinez had impro

Yeah… walking through the water like that isn’t supposed to look that easy. Imagine going out on the porch of your lake house, sipping on a cup of coffee and watching a couple of moose go for a jog in the lake. As crazy as that sounds (and how nice it would be to own a house on the lake, right?), that’s pretty much exa

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - In honor of Flag Day, veterans and families gathered in the field near AMVETS Post 49 in Anchorage Sunday to watch as a collection of American flags were ceremonially retired. Each flag was folded thirteen times and thrown into a fire, in order to, in the...