On Friday, the Anchorage Assembly authorized an expansion of the permissible capacity at its mass shelter on East 56th Avenue ...

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 ...

Jul. 7—As wildfires continue to ignite and burn across Alaska's Interior, warm weather in Southcentral Alaska over the July Fourth weekend contributed to several small blazes within the Municipality ...

But the mayor's unfunded idea also came under immediate attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance’s administration announced it will be issuing over $5 million in direct housing assistance to help address the city’s homeless crisis. LaFrance made the announcement ...