Anchorage News

WASILLA _ The Mat-Su Borough Assembly this week added shredded waste to the list of things that constitute trash to make sure an Anchorage company gets a permit before dumping ground-up construction and demolition debris near Palmer.

Mayor Dan Sullivan and the Anchorage Assembly are faced this month with a good problem to have: what to do with the $13 million city budget surplus that was announced Wednesday.

Psychiatrist-Fraud Charges Anchorage psychiatrist charged with fraud ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A 39-year-old Anchorage psychiatrist is accused of billing Medicaid more than $300,000 for services never provided.

A massive wind tower and turbine dwarf construction workers on Fire Island in the final phases of construction in 2012 before power began flowing that fall.

In response to UMIAQ's new Municipal Services Division, Erika Green has been hired as a Senior Planner with twelve years of professional planning experience in local and state government land use planning, policy and community development.

Anchorage, Alaska April 14, 2014 Visit Anchorage recognized service to Anchorage visitors, the community and Alaska's tourism industry at the 27th annual Seymour Awards Banquet on April 11, 2014.

A former assistant professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage was arrested Wednesday on charges for distributing and possessing child pornography at both his office and residence, according to a release from the state department of law.

The House passed the bill 38-0 on Wednesday, and now it moves to the Senate, where the State Affairs Committee was scheduled to hear it Thursday, KTOO reported .

Despite a wind that makes today's minus 14 degrees Fahrenheit feel like minus 39, a worker at this research camp in blue-white hills north of the Brooks Range has proclaimed this the first day of summer.

The Senate passed a bill Wednesday to raise the bar for Alaskans who want to stop industrial or construction projects in court, directing judges to consider lost employee wages and contractor payments when setting a bond in an injunction case.

As Mat-Su Borough managers began what was already projected to be a difficult budget process this week, an auditor said an almost $8 million shortfall at the port threatens its bond rating.

Oral argument in the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance appeal of Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell's decision to reject a proposed ballot initiative to ban setnetting will be held in Anchorage April 22. The alliance, or AFCA, wants to ask voters to ban setnets in urban parts of the state.

Yuit LLC, an Anchorage-based strategic communications and software development firm, has hired videographer Michael Stewart as a producer/director.

Preliminary measurements from the Alaska Earthquake Information Center pegged the quake at magnitude 5.06 at a depth of 47 miles.

Authorities arrested an Anchorage physician Tuesday evening, alleging he billed Medicaid more than $170,000 for services he never provided.

Daylight was just beginning to break when Robin Crocker let her dogs out on April 4. It was a crisp, Friday morning outside their Greer Road home east of Homer.

Last winter's curvy jet stream pattern brought mild temperatures to western North America and harsh cold to the East.

Palmer Golf Course on Wednesday will continue its tradition of being the first Anchorage-area course to open all 18 holes.

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.