Anchorage AK

Anchorage’s public transit plan is now in its final phase of community input, and city officials are asking residents to share their priorities. A new survey invites people to rank their top five transit projects, helping guide the city’s decisions for the next few years. The plan builds on past improvements,...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Fire crews responded to an occupied multi-family building fire in Anchorage Wednesday afternoon, prompting a second alarm and potential medical transport for at least one resident, according to officials. The Anchorage Fire Department said the call came in at 2:58 p.m. as a structure fire...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - On Feb. 5, 2026, the family of Alecia Ai Lindsay filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Municipality of Anchorage, alleging that a 911 dispatcher’s failure to recognize a medical emergency — and a delay of more than an hour in sending help — directly caused her death.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage illustrator Julia Ditto has won People Mover’s “Locally Rooted” bus stop art competition. Her colorful, stacked design highlights Chugach mountain peaks, berry slopes, forests, wetlands, salmon streams and Turnagain Arm, all tied to Dena’ina subsistence, and the land riders travel...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Irish Dance Academy of Anchorage is marking St. Patrick’s Day with performances around the community, giving students a chance to show off a discipline that demands strength, timing and practice. ‘A lot of hard work’. Student Zita Lindamood said she did not take to...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The National Weather Service has released its first spring breakup forecast of the year, flagging conditions along the upper Yukon and Tanana rivers that could lead to ice jam flooding. Kyle Van Peursem of the Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center said the combination of heavy snowpack...

There’s a repeat champion in the Iditarod. Jessie Holmes, the reigning champion, has won the 54th Iditarod, going back-to-back in dominant fashion. Holmes led the race nearly the entire way, reaching every checkpoint first, including White Mountain, where he took his final mandatory eight-hour rest before the last...

Authorities have confirmed the death of a man connected to a recent homicide investigation in Eagle River. The Anchorage Police Department says they found 61-year-old Matthew Thomas Becker deceased in a wooded area near the Eagle River Campground on Sunday. Becker had been a suspect in a homicide reported the day...

The search is ongoing to find the whereabouts of Kelly Hunt, a 19-year-old Shaktoolik graduate who has been missing since early January.

A coalition of fishing groups, conservation advocates and community organizations is calling for stricter oversight of midwater trawl fishing as the Alaska Board of Fisheries begins its Statewide Finfish meeting Tuesday in Anchorage. The Alaska Healthy Habitat Alliance has submitted three proposals 163, 164 and 165 —...