Anchorage AK

The National Weather Service in Anchorage has a winter storm warning in effect for Alaska’s Northern Susitna Valley from 1 p.m. Today, Oct. 29, until 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, Alaska time (5 p.m. Today to 6 p.m. Friday ET). Forecasters expect 7 to 15 inches of snow along the Parks Highway corridor through Broad Pass, with visibility dropping to a quarter mile or less at times.

Light snow comes first, and the heaviest bands arrive overnight with visibility dropping to a quarter mile or less.

ANCHORAGE, AK (Alaska’s News Source) - A series of storms is rolling through Western Alaska, then making its next stop in Southcentral and the Interior by Thursday morning. In the meantime, quiet conditions remain across the Southern Coastline as another round of dense freezing fog blankets Anchorage. Another round...

Naomi Estes opened her fridge in her Chugiak home in early October and pulled out an 18-pack of off-brand eggs. “I don’t buy the free-range anymore — sorry chickens!” she said, laughing. “I used to and now it’s just — we’re surviving out here.”

Almost exactly a year since acquiring the building at 3956 Spenard Road, Emily Klopfer cut the ribbon at the renovated space on October 23, 2026. The co-owner and namesake of Betti’s, Anchorage’s newest independent bookstore, didn’t make any remarks at the store’s grand opening on October 23, but that’s not too surprising: she’s a dog.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Testimony continued Wednesday in the trial of John Ivory, accused in the October 2025 crash that killed 34-year-old Lorraine Williams on Fireweed Lane, with jurors hearing crash reconstruction analysis and forensic testing that found Ivory’s blood clean. Ivory was present in court as both sides...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Megan Stone says her 18-year-old daughter Autumn is lucky to be alive after hitting a moose Monday evening while driving down an icy Anchorage road. “That’s what we’ve been hearing this entire ordeal, from the EMTs to the doctors, they are amazed that she’s alive,” Stone said.

As the Alaska Department of Natural Resources is deliberating on a controversial no-cost state land transfer in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, legal questions remain around whether the transfer of public lands for private development qualifies as public or charitable use. The state could transfer 20,000 acres near Houston to its economic...

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — A stolen cellphone led to the arrest of Brian Steven Smith, the man who filmed himself killing 30-year-old Kathleen Jo Henry in an Anchorage hotel room in 2019. A homeless woman took the phone from Smith’s truck, found the disturbing files, and turned them over to police. In July 2024, Smith was sentenced to 226 years in prison. The case remains one of Alaska’s most disturbing murders.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Sentencing was postponed Tuesday for an Anchorage woman convicted in an animal cruelty case that included video of her striking her Saint Bernard dog with a shovel, after testimony from character witnesses ran long. Michelle Anne Appel, 50, was scheduled to be sentenced on a Class...