Anchorage AK

Anchorage residents in eligible wildfire hazard areas can pick up free sprinkler kits this weekend. The Anchorage Fire Department Wildfire Division has received FEMA grant funding to purchase and distribute more than 2,000 wildfire sprinkler kits to eligible residents. Eligibility now includes residents in Extreme, Ver

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - People across Alaska are participating in walks this month for Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month. According to state data, Alaska has been around double the national average for suicide rates over the past decade. Anchorage and Fairbanks walks. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevent

The Alaska Department of Corrections will pay roughly $800,000 to inmate Jonathan Pace after an Anchorage jury found the department negligent in connection with a serious injury he suffered at a halfway house. Pace fell from a top bunk while staying at the halfway house, suffering a traumatic brain injury....

Anchorage police are asking for the public’s help finding a missing 13-year-old girl. Police say Cassandra Larson-Shugak was last seen September 11 near the 1400 block of West 25th Avenue. Cassandra is 13 years old, 5-foot-6, and weighs about 115 pounds. She has black hair with a reddish-brown color.

Stock image by Betty4240/Getty Images A driver in Alaska recently shared the culprits behind a traffic slowdown on the highway—a family of black bears crossing the road. The post WATCH: Family of Black Bears Crosses the Road in Anchorage appeared first on Outdoors with Bear Grylls .

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A small plane crashed Thursday night in the Wrangell Mountains, killing both people onboard, authorities say. The Piper Cub with two onboard crashed shortly after taking off from a dirt airstrip near Snag Creek and ended up near the small community of Nabesna, where Alaska State Trooper say t

A relentless “revolving door” of drug overdose dispatches and record-high call volumes are pushing Anchorage Fire Department personnel to their limits, according to frontline paramedics and union leadership.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Quicker access, reduced wait times, more benefits. That’s the promise Washington D.C. is pledging to Alaska’s veterans through a program launching in just over a month, but it comes amid new congressional scrutiny over the contractor. “We are investing in our veteran population by...

The chief administrator of Providence St. Elias Specialty Hospital in Anchorage is being reassigned to the nonprofit healthcare network’s largest hospital in Alaska. Jessica Oswald has been named Chief Administrative Officer of Providence Alaska Medical Center, in charge of executive leadership and operational oversigh

The USPS mail system can sometimes feel like a fickle creature, with plenty of stories of packages ending up in bizarre places. And while Alaska isn’t exactly bizarre, it most certainly is a ways off from Wisconsin, where a customer had paid extra for it to arrive faster. Reddit user WhyDidIClickOnThat shares their pre