Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad.

The total is a sharp rise from 2023's 23 homicides, but still below the city's modern record of 38 set in 2017.

Charges were filed this week stemming from a November incident where 33-year-old Aaron Richwine, while off-duty, allegedly drove a truck into a ditch after drinking.

The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your snow to Anchorage."

From January 27, 1925 until February 2, 20 mushers and 150 dogs heroically transported desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin to the remote town of Nome, Alaska, saving countless lives in the process.

Residents in Anchorage are receiving green postcards in their mailboxes this month, the city's assessment of what their property is worth. The estimated value of single-family homes, which constitute the largest share of taxable property in the municipality,

New Orleans has received more snowfall since the start of meteorological winter than many cold-weather cities across the country.

It may be January, but the unusually warm, rainy weather feels more like spring breakup, and it’s bringing the kind of flooding concerns also usually not seen in the Anchorage area until later in the year.

University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor Sean Parnell has announced that he would retire at the end of the spring semester.

“We are going to see 3000 jobs added to the Anchorage economy, personal incomes are going to continue to rise, inflation’s going to stagnate,” Wright said. “But we are going to continue to struggle with people that we need to fill the roles here in Anchorage.”

Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced a bill through the House, and the Senate majority is expected to introduce its own election reforms later this week

The Gulf Coast city that rarely sees snowflakes has received more than double the snowfall that Anchorage has since Dec. 1, the start of the meteorological winter.