Anchorage AK

Displayed on a screen in a community hall, they are a species explained. Then the sound "beluga" whispers past a table with a skull displayed, whooshes by children examining sticker maps crowded with marine busyness, follows a glacial creek to Turnagain Arm, touches a bore tide surfer, passes Bird Point and another point that bears its name.

U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola was among those injured in a multi-vehicle crash in Anchorage Saturday evening. Anchorage police say the crash happened around 7 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of O’Malley Road and Lake Otis Parkway. Investigators say a westbound vehicle on O’Malley Road rear-ended a second vehicle,...

A former U.S. Army soldier from Alaska is headed to prison for decades after gunning down his combat medic wife and stuffing her body in a storm drain. The post Army soldier accused of stuffing newlywed wife in storm drain after shooting her, wheeling body around in 'rolling trash can' learns his fate first appeared on Law & Crime .

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A vehicle transporting Senate candidate Mary Peltola and her family was struck by another vehicle Saturday night, causing minor injuries, the campaign said in a statement. It’s delaying part of her last sprint to Election Day. The campaign said the collision happened on the way...

A master plan is underway for Girdwood's 50-year-old wastewater treatment facility and improvements could run as much as $100 million, said the facility's plant manager during a tour Monday. The plant is "reaching the end of its useful life", according to an Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility budget document. Its...

After trying two different quarterbacks in the first half of the season, the South Anchorage football team ditched the middleman and went straight to the source. The Wolverines put star halfback Ethan Yarrington in the shotgun and let him run the offense. On Friday night, he ran over top-ranked West Anchorage in the ASAA First National Bowl.

Last year, while the Alaska Federation of Natives convention gathered in Anchorage, hundreds of its tribal members were being airlifted to the city after their villages were devastated by ex-typhoon Halong. A year later, the evacuees are still top of mind at the convention. The AFN board of directors passed...

ANCHORAGE, AK (Alaska’s News Source) - Rain has begun to stretch from the Kuskokwim Delta to the Seward Peninsula with snow thrown into the mix as a major storm hits the coast. Wind gusts as of 7 a.m. have already exceeded 50 mph in Bethel, Hooper, Bay, Gambell and...

Anchorage city officials have narrowed Denali Street in Midtown from five lanes to three, with plans to use the outer lanes for snow storage. Typically, the city trucks snow farther away to designated snow storage sites. The lane closure is a pilot project, according to Nora Morse, Deputy Chief of...

The UAA volleyball team on Thursday made the most of its last dance in Burnaby, British Columbia. With Simon Fraser set to leave the NCAA for the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association next season, the Seawolves gave local fans something to remember them by after posting a reverse sweep. UAA dug...