Anchorage News

Anchorage is a paradise for summer and winter outdoor activities, especially in our wonderful parks.

Intermission was coming to a close at the July 5 performance of Opera Fairbanks' "L'Italiana in Algeri" when someone drove into a power pole and knocked out electricity to a chunk of the city, including the Hering Auditorium.

Gavin G. Graham, a 2011 graduate of DePauw University, has been appointed a small business specialist by Wells Fargo Bank in Anchorage, Alaska.

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Tammy Dohmen runs Rev, a rough collie, during the Kenai Kennel Club's annual dog show Friday July 11, 2014 in Soldotna, Alaska.

Brisais Madsen, 7, scales a climbing wall at the annual Governor's Picnic on Saturday, July 12, 2014 on the Delaney Park Strip in Anchorage.

The Alaska State Troopers helped patch up a fishing boat that was taking on water near Dillingham on Friday, authorities said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A rural Alaska family is torn between feelings of grief and celebration.

Commercial driftnet fishermen -- but not setnet fishermen -- will get a chance Saturday to target Cook Inlet sockeyes, state fishery managers announced Friday evening.

A surge of water released from behind an ice dam flowed through Juneau this week but crested late in the day Friday and had emergency officials breathing a sigh of relief.

A state agency has rejected a complaint that parents who volunteered to spend the last month of the legislative session in Juneau seeking money for schools should have registered as paid lobbyists.

The Rating Outlook is Stable. SECURITY The bonds are backed by net sewer revenues before the enterprise's payments in lieu of taxes .

An Anchorage man and former Alaska Yellow Cab driver accused of sexually assaulting a passenger he'd offered a free ride in August 2011 was found not guilty on Friday following a week-long trial.

The 33-year-old man accused of killing four children and their parents inside a suburban Houston home Wednesday attended an Alaska high school where he was voted prom king and class clown.

Andrew Duncan and Todd Hendrickson of Acme Fence Co. install gates at the ends of the covered breezeway between the 4th Avenue Theatre and First National Bank of Alaska on Thursday.

Jeffrey MacDonald tells of efforts at Christ Church in Anchorage, Alaska, to provide aging members of the community with affordable housing on the parish's property.

"Whatcha wanna eat? Also, do you want to be on Buying Alaska?" read a text message I received on Sunday night from my significant other, Zac.

One's a former Republican legislator who pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy in 2011 as part of the FBI's investigation of Alaska political corruption.

This weekend, Eli, Chris, Geoff and David will do their best to make up for that oversight when they present three shows as a Beatles tribute band called BritBeat.

A couple of Anchorage men hope to parlay this weekend's Fireweed 400 bike race into a two-day road trip that puts an Alaskan spin on planes, trains and automobiles.

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Water encroaches on a horse barn Wedneday July 2, 2014 on Buoy Avenue near the Kalifonsky Meadow Subdivision in Kenai, Alaska.