Anchorage AK

ANCHORAGE, AK (Alaska’s News Source) - Clearer skies spreading across the state, is allowing for some frost and light freeze to occur for many areas. Fairbanks officially bottomed out near freezing, tying the latest first freeze with last year. While we have yet to hit freezing in Anchorage, localized areas of some...

At last year’s Alaska State Fair, Anchorage grower Dale Marshall was given the Giant Pumpkin crown for a record-extending seventh straight year. His gourd weighed in at 2,035 pounds. This honor at the Alaska State Fair usually makes news headlines worldwide. However, pumpkin should be in the headlines a great deal...

A book of historical photographs showing Anchorage's humble beginnings and its growth to becoming Alaska's largest city hit bookstore shelves this summer. "Anchorage" is part of the Images of America series, and its first photos are actually from before most settlers moved into the area, which is the ancestral...

Anchorage tiny homes project designed to provide a pathway to recovery. The "micro-units" will be built in the red-fenced in lot near the corner of Tudor and Elmore Road. Fairbanks elections: Melissa Burnett and Naomi Hewitt run for school board seat D. Updated: 5 hours ago. In the 2025 municipal...

It was 1980, in northern Colorado, when I chatted with Martha Jean Shadrach for the first time. A contributing writer to Denver Magazine then, I accepted an invitation from Jane, my editor, to come to the Boulder home of her parents for a party. Jane introduced me to the family’s...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage municipal workers and representatives of the Anchorage Community Development Authority met with community members to provide information on the “micro-units” to house individuals recovering from addiction. The project was announced earlier this year, and the units are slated to be...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A recent donation to the UAA/APU Consortium Library revealed a 1937 Mt. McKinley National Park brochure. The almost 90-year-old document is in near perfect condition, with no obvious damage or fading of color. “This isn’t just created to document what Mount McKinley National Park was at...

ANCHORAGE — Federal authorities have charged a Chinese national with participating in an international drug trafficking conspiracy that used a Wasilla virtual mailbox service to ship methamphetamine overseas. Prosecutors say 42-year-old Zukai He entered the U.S. illegally in 2017 and was under an order of removal...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous years. The annual online competition allows viewers to follow 12 bears in...

To honor the Historic Iditarod Trail’s use as a mail trail, the Educational Trail Mail project will give classrooms the chance to send a piece of mail in a musher’s sled along the Northern Route in the 2026 Iditarod. Details on how to get your class involved in sending mail on a sled will be announced in early...