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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Little Bears Playhouse is preparing to open a new facility in Girdwood as parents say finding early learning and childcare in the community has been a challenge. The local nonprofit’s new building includes classrooms for toddlers, infants, preschoolers, and pre-K students. A new space for...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Michael Bazemore, Athletic Director at Montana State University Billings since 2021, announced his resignation on Tuesday after accepting a similar position in Alaska. In late July, Bazemore will be the new athletic director for the University of Alaska Anchorage. "This announcement brings mixed emot

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Misty Vanderweele lives surrounded by magic: dahlias, red, pink, magenta with orange tips, sweet peas that cascade up a 6-foot-high arch that’s as tall as it is wide. Ranunculus or anenomes, florescent white color, the Pantone Color of the year Cloud Dancer, bleeding to a darker center.

The man who died while paddleboarding in Turnagain Arm has now been identified. That story and more on this Morning Edition Extra.

Commercial harvests of Alaska's 2026 salmon reached an estimated 3.3 million fish by June 22, with the catch increasing in Prince William Sound, Bristol Bay, the Kenai Peninsula, and Kodiak. Costco warehouses in Anchorage still had fresh Copper River sockeye fillets for sale at $14.95 a pound, while other retailers,...

Two Anchorage Assembly members have a proposal meant to make it easier to build in a city that needs more affordable housing. Assembly member Erin Baldwin Day and co-sponsor George Martinez introduced the ordinance at an Assembly meeting on June 9. The goal is to build housing at price points...

Two Anchorage Assembly members are calling for fellow member George Martinez to resign, alleging he violated public trust through improper use of campaign funds. Assembly members Donald Handeland and Jared Goecker say George Martinez should step down from office, accusing him of using campaign funds for personal benefi

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Firefighters are expected to remain at the Mat-Su Central Landfill into Tuesday morning after a fire broke out Monday evening in a construction debris area, according to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The borough said the fire was reported at about 5:28 p.m. in the landfill’s construction and

Stock image by Scott Dickerson / Design Pics/Getty Images A mountain biker riding on the Dome Trail near Anchorage, Alaska, suddenly came upon a brown bear on the trail, and it charged at him. The post Brown Bear Attacks Mountain Biker on Trail in Alaska appeared first on Outdoors with Bear Grylls .

Kodiak College is getting closer to naming its next director after narrowing the applicant pool down to three finalists. Each of the three candidates have at least a decade of experience in higher education and will all be visiting Kodiak from the Lower 48 this week. The college’s most recent...