Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, center, and Alexis Johnson, the city's homelessness coordinator, left, listen as a homeless man ...

Alaska school districts risk losing access to up to several hundred thousand dollars in federal funding aimed at homeless students if they aren't able to commit to spending it by the end of September.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Every year around this time, Alaska’s biggest city prepares for the freezing-cold winter by getting snowplows and deicing equipment ready. It also has to get hundreds of homeless ...

Four homeless people died in Anchorage, Alaska, this week amid a storm that dumped more than two feet of snow on parts of the city in just 48 hours. The latest fatalities have added to a soaring death ...

As we began this year’s legislative session, I focused, as always, on introducing legislation to benefit my constituents and communities across Alaska. Many of the policies I introduced were active ...

ANCHORAGE — Near the end of the snowiest year on record for Alaska’s largest city, Larry Tunley took a plastic box tied to an old boogie board and pulled the makeshift sled through the trees to ...

Homeless people in Anchorage, Alaska could get a free one-way plane ticket to Los Angeles and other U.S. cities with warmer climates this winter under a proposal announced by Anchorage's mayor.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The city of Anchorage began clearing its largest and longest-standing homeless encampment Tuesday, following weeks of preparation by municipal agencies. Despite the plans, warnings ...

An encampment of homeless people is off of 1st Avenue in Anchorage on Nov. 21, 2023. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/Alaska Beacon) Domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness for women and their ...

The halls are lined with lockers and portraits of elders at the Anna Tobeluk Memorial School in Nunapitchuk, Alaska. October 12, 2023. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon) Alaska school districts ...