Anchorage AK

A year after being cancelled because of snowless trails, the Frosty Bottom bike race returned Saturday amid a snowstorm that dumped several inches as fat bikers pedaled and pushed 43 miles through Anchorage. As you’d expect, the fresh and abundant snow meant slower times. And lots of DNFs. About...

Sisters by blood, competitors at heart, the Ostrander sisters opened the year with fireworks at the Houston Half Marathon. Allie Ostrander covered the 13.1-mile course in a blistering 1 hour, 10 minutes and 8 seconds to finish 18th, lowering her own Alaska record in the process. Taylor Deal (née Ostrander) clocked...

ANCHORAGE, AK (Alaska’s News Source) - Southeast Alaska is bracing for non-stop rainfall as the week ahead brings a second storm system to the region. Avalanche and flooding risk will only increase as temperatures stay above freezing, paired with new round of rain nearly everyday. The next impact moving forward will...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - One lane on part of Elmore Road in Anchorage will be closed for the rest of Sunday, the Anchorage Police Department said around 1 p.m. An APD dispatch supervisor said the “creek has possibly frozen over and started flooding part of the roadway.”. APD said...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A woman who was shot in Wasilla Saturday morning is reported to be in stable condition, Alaska State Troopers said Saturday evening. The report of a woman with a gunshot wound came in just before 8 a.m. Saturday, troopers said. “It was reported that she had...

Two Soldotna-based Alaska State Troopers pleaded not guilty in federal court in Anchorage yesterday to one count each of violating a Kenai man’s civil rights. A federal grand jury indicted 43-year-old Jason Woodruff and 50-year-old Joseph Miller last month over their alleged conduct during a violent 2024 arrest in...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - For at least the last week, more than a dozen bald eagles have perched on a tree near the busy intersection of Debarr and Muldoon Roads in East Anchorage. Aviana Stoute, who works at the coffee shop in the parking lot below, says the birds have...

Saying its hands were bound by the Assembly, an Anchorage commission denied recommendations by Girdwood officials to mollify development plans for the controversial "Holtan Hills" project. Community members on Monday told the Anchorage Planning and Zoning Commission. that the new homes will be too expensive for local...

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RENO, NEV. – The Alaska Anchorage track and field team posted seven top-10 marks in school history at the Silver & Blue Invite hosted by Nevada Reno. Tyler Drake finished second in the 60 hurdles and third in the long jump. His time of 8.36 in the hurdles ranks fourth all-time at UAA and his jump of 22-3/5.29 ranks...