Emily Goodykoontz

Business owners say the new encampment has brought a surge of problems and crime to the area. Homeless residents say they moved there because they had nowhere else to go.

With encampment settled nearby, an Anchorage church plans city’s 1st small shelter village for homeless

Police said they received multiple calls reporting that a man was firing a shotgun from a Chevy pickup truck near the 3300 block of Eagle Street just after 11 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Next Step initiative has moved 177 people into housing and provides them a year of rent assistance and case management support.

Anchorage proposal aims to make it easier to retrieve belongings from vehicles impounded by police

The Anchorage Assembly’s measure calls for short-term rental online platforms to give the city information on the numbers of rentals, their locations and the types of units rented, among other information.

The city is planning to open 500 winter shelter beds in late October, according to a top administration official.

The city has five years to complete the project, which aims to improve safety along a 1.5-mile stretch of Bragaw Street, between the Glenn Highway and Northern Lights Boulevard.

The city is preparing to open 500 emergency winter shelter beds next month.

Hoping to attract and retain more workers, the Municipality of Anchorage expanded remote work options to the Anchorage Municipal Employees Association, a union of about 500 staff.