Jun. 19—Three members of the Anchorage Assembly have introduced a measure that would add criminal penalties when people sleep or camp in public areas in the city, including parks, trails and sidewalks ...

Elected officials in Anchorage are trying to figure out how to stop big, entrenched homeless encampments from taking over stretches of parks, trails and public land. Just a week after the city’s ...

The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday rejected a move to kill a proposal that would add a 3% sales tax in the municipality and instead postponed its final vote on the measure to a March 18 meeting. The ...

Anchorage residents won’t vote on a sales tax proposal in the next municipal election. At a meeting Tuesday, the Assembly postponed voting on the proposed ballot measure, and instead passed a ...

Anchorage accounts for nearly half of Alaska’s worst crash locations, but on Wednesday evening the state pulled $19 million in safety funding from the city—less than 24 hours before Anchorage assembly ...

Cars on the highway with the sun setting over the Chugach Mountains in Anchorage in December 2019. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage Assembly rejected a sales tax proposal March 18 ...

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson states his opposition to the proposed mask ordinance during the assembly meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, in Anchorage, Alaska. Bronson, mayor of Alaska's largest city, ...