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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Anchorage ordinance criminalizing homelessness is not a solution — it’s a shameful retreat from humanity. We are in the midst of a housing and mental health crisis. Shelters are overburdened, ...

Jul. 16—The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday night voted 7-5 to approve a new measure adding criminal penalties for camping on public lands. According to supporters, the move is one of many the city is ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...