May 14—For the past three summers, May in Anchorage meant the closure of city-funded homeless shelters, and an exodus of campers into the greenbelts of Anchorage. Sprawling illegal camps, some housing ...

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance said her administration is working to ramp up the clearing of major homeless camps. At a press conference Wednesday, she said her team would start to abate two large ...

At the end of June, Anchorage was estimated to have a little more than 3,150 homeless people, according to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness and only 614 beds at shelters citywide, with no ...

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance wants to create two overnight car camping spots for homeless people this summer. Farina Brown, with the mayor’s office, said the idea is to increase outreach to those ...

First it was a strip club. Then it was a Baptist church. Now, the boxy silver building is Anchorage’s newest homeless shelter. Linda’s Place, housed in a storied property located on a busy stretch of ...

Jul. 13—The Anchorage Assembly this week approved requirements and a process for establishing sanctioned homeless camps in the city, setting the stage for a possible pilot project this summer. The ...

Apr. 14—Outgoing Anchorage Assembly Vice Chair Meg Zaletel said she is leaving her job at the head of one of the state's main nonprofits dealing with housing and homelessness. Since 2021, Zaletel has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage Mayor ...

The synthetic drug Spice contributed to the death of an Anchorage homeless person, state health officials said Tuesday. Autopsy results revealed positive test results for the drug, the Alaska ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wildlife officials have killed four black bears in a campground recently reserved for people in Anchorage who are homeless. Employees from the Alaska Department of Fish ...