Anchorage AK

Anchorage police investigated a shooting at a West Anchorage address. Officers responded to 1650 W Northern Lights Boulevard shortly after 8:30 a.m. Sunday for a reported shooting. When they arrived, they found an adult male with a gunshot wound to the upper body. The victim was treated for non-life-threatening...

Judge Jack McKenna on Monday resentenced Winona Fletcher to 60 years. With mandatory parole reducing that by a third, to 40 years, it means Fletcher will be released from prison. -- Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media. Original story:. Winona Fletcher’s past 40 years have been spent in Alaska prisons, ever since...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - One man was taken to the hospital after a shooting on W. Northern Lights Blvd on Sunday. Anchorage Police responded to a reported shooting at 8:31 a.m. Sunday near the Carrs grocery store area, according to a statement from the APD. The investigation determined the shooting happened inside...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Saturday, people spent the day climbing up Alyeska’s North Face trail and taking the tram down. “Participants climb the North Face of Alyeska as many times as possible within a 10-hour period of time. And that’s an over two miles climb ascending 2,000 feet. So, particularly for those...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - It’s a problem we all face: what to do with all those leftover vegetables so they don’t go to waste? The Alaska State Fair, in conjunction with the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, has devised a solution to the age-old problem: feeding them to the bears.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A large police presence in the Spenard area Sunday morning has cleared, according to the Anchorage Police Department (APD). APD wrote online that it happened around 8:30 a.m. near 1650 W Northern Lights Boulevard. That’s near the intersection on Northern Lights and Minnesota. A dispatch...

The Anchorage Assembly will take up a controversial proposal Tuesday evening that would ask voters to approve a retail sales tax in the city. Assemblyman George Martinez has introduced an ordinance that would place a 1% sales tax measure — cleverly dubbed “Penny for Progress” — on the April 7, 2026, municipal ballot....

Koniag IT Systems LLC, Anchorage, Alaska, has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract (HQ0034-25-C-E074). The amount of this action is $13,895,193. operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $8,025,290 are being obligated at the time of the award. The cumulative total of the contract is $83,268,014. The...

ANCHORAGE (Sept. 6) – Senior outside hitter Tia Allen notched 14 kills on career-high .462 hitting Saturday to help the Alaska Anchorage volleyball team remain perfect with a 25-12, 25-12, 25-16 sweep of Minot State in the Seawolf Invitational finale at the Alaska Airlines Center. The Seawolves (7-0) also...

Former Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, who recently stepped down and is expected to enter the 2026 race for governor, has asked the Alaska Public Offices Commission for an exemption in filing certain required financial disclosures. At issue is Taylor’s extensive rental property business; he and his wife own...