Anchorage

With less than a month to go before they vote on a proposal to cut or repurpose seven elementary schools, school board members say they’re still collecting information and hoping to hear from residents.

Community dinners are on tap for Thanksgiving week, and restaurant and take-home options are available as well.

An effort to include funding to explore independent civilian oversight of Anchorage police failed.

The move comes after a recent spike in fatal pedestrian-vehicle crashes.

Biologists believe the animal was a young female. How it died remains a mystery.

Proposed projects include four-season trail facilities, an aquatic center and a children’s museum.

Rising costs for chemicals, labor, energy, and depreciating assets are behind the request, according to the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility.

Biologists said they weren’t sure why the animal died and planned to continue their examination on Monday.

It’s the latest in a decades-long effort to build a second major roadway north out of Anchorage.

A review of 15 years of police shootings by the Anchorage Police Department is complete.

With some estimating their population in the hundreds, rabbits are wreaking havoc at Aquarian Charter School. The city is preparing to try to live-trap them.

More than 500 crashes occurred on the Midtown Anchorage road over a recent 10-year period, many of them causing injuries.

The proposed budget amendment would fund a national group to explore the oversight concept. Some police employees oppose the concept already.

It’s also the first year the city has revenue to spend from the marijuana tax.

The Equity Center will provide coworking, commercial cooking and office rental space, among other services.

A recent study by UAA economists found that the sales tax would impact low-income residents the most, while largely reducing property taxes for businesses.

The ordinance would also increase the fines for people who illegally park at a disabled parking meter.

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Several properties on DeLong Lake have water damage from swamped marshlands, an issue that’s worsening from heavy precipitation and big snow loads in recent winters.

Preliminary information indicates a silver SUV was traveling northbound on Brayton Drive when it hit a man who was in the road, police said.

Anchorage is home to some of the most diverse public schools in the country. The school district relies on specialized programs to support its many students with language needs.

A $100,000 grant for a feasibility study should result in a handful of Ram Valley access options for Alaska State Parks to consider.

Assembly Vice Chair Meg Zaletel called the measures “big milestones in a very long-term project.”