A pile of organic material smoking at Solid Waste Services in Anchorage on Sept. 17, 2024. (Matt Faubion/AKPM) A pilot program in Anchorage is accepting…
Joel Jackson, President of the Organized Village of Kake (OVK) holds up up a couple carved wooden paddles, which were among the objects a group…
Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021,…
Anchorage police and other law enforcement vehicles parked near Muldoon Road and 6th Avenue as officers responded to a suspect barricaded into a home on…
An Anchorage police vehicle at a crime scene Nov. 24, 2023. (Valerie Lake / Alaska Public Media). Two Anchorage pedestrians were struck and killed by…
Brian Jackson, election program manager for the Alaska Division of Elections, demonstrates on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, how a hand-count process would work for Alaska’s…
The job of law enforcement officers isn’t an easy one. Police are often dealing with people in crisis, who may be a threat to themselves…
Alaska’s biggest police force has had an unusual string of seven incidents this year where its officers have opened fire in the line of duty,…
Anchorage Police Sgt. Matthew Hall demonsrates use of one the the department’s sensory room, as part of the peer support program. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)…
Alaska Native Cultural Charter School students gather at the start of the school day on Feb. 20, 2024. Students recite the pledge of allegiance in…
