Anchorage News

Anchorage police say a phone scam where callers impersonate police officers has in recent days defrauded at least two victims, costing them hundreds of dollars.

The FBI says this unidentified man robbed an Alaska USA branch inside the Aurora Village Carrs store Monday, April 14, 2014 Anchorage police and federal agents are looking for a man who robbed a credit union branch inside a Spenard supermarket Monday morning, according to the FBI.

Cecily Fritz and Wendy Carter at the 2013 Gunsight Mountain Hawkwatch, at Mile 118.8 on the Glenn Highway.Photo by Chris Maack Contrary to popular belief, we do have four seasons up here in Alaska: fishing season, berry-picking season, ski season ... and hawk-watching season, which is in full swing right now.

The new Anchorage Assembly picked Patrick Flynn as its chairman Tuesday, solidifying a shift away from Mayor Dan Sullivan's conservative politics after the city election earlier this month.

Anchorage, Alaska April 14, 2014 As the filing deadline quickly approaches, Better Business Bureau serving Alaska, Oregon and Western Washington is warning tax-paying consumers to file cautiously.

The first footrace and bike race of the summer are fast approaching. The Arctic Bicycle Club will kick off its season Saturday, while early registration ends Friday for the Heart Run, one of the biggest footraces of the summer.

Las Vegas Wranglers -- Former Aces W Shawn Skelly, former Aces W Adam Huxley, former UAF F Carlo Finucci and former Aces D Ben Parker.

A male pedestrian was critically injured when he was struck by a car in a Fairview parking lot Monday night, police said.

The Alaska fugitive case against Davon Mosley of Bakersfield, Calif., was dropped March 27 after California authorities declined extradition even though a regional parole administrator said his office there recommended his return to that state.

Supporters of HB384 sought to allay fears, saying they had no intent to revisit the issue for at least two years, should a bill pass.

The city of Wasilla easily approved a ban on synthetic drugs like Spice and bath salts Monday night after failing to pass a similar measure in February.

Children walk home from school through the Riviera Terrace Mobile Home Park off Boniface Parkway on Monday, April 14, 2014.

A state judge in early April sentenced former Wasilla recreation director John Combs to serve three days in a halfway house in Anchorage on charges stemming from his driving under the influence arrest last year.

Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, recently announced plans to picket the Alaska Native Heritage Center on Sunday, June 1, a move that quickly triggered talk of a counterprotest.

Forecasters say clouds rolling into Anchorage late Monday may obscure residents' view of the first total eclipse of the moon for 2014.

Alaska State Troopers say a 39-year-old Eagle River man and his two sons were rescued after they were reported overdue from a hike.

Idaho Steelheads winger William Rapuzzi of Anchorage, voted onto the ECHL's All-Rookie Team last week, today was named the circuit's Rookie of the Year.

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A two-decade-old debate over whether to build a $75 million, so-called Road to Nowhere through an Alaska wilderness area to connect the city of King Cove, population 938 , to Cold Bay, population 108 , has emerged as one of the most bitterly contested natural resource battles of 2014.

Doctors are hopeful a 21-year-old North Pole man, who broke his back attempting a snowmachine jump at the Arctic Man Classic on Friday, will walk again, his family said.