The Latest Breaking News from Anchorage

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — As the filing deadline approached Friday to run in the special election to fill Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, the field got crowded, with current and former lawmakers, former Gov. Sarah Palin and others jumping in.

Residents of a suburb of Anchorage in Alaska were ordered on Sunday to evacuate a mountainous area after one massive avalanche buried a road and another huge slide was considered imminent.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday that a map of state Senate districts in Anchorage “constituted an unconstitutional political gerrymander violating equal protection under the Alaska Constitution.”

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The company that owns the trans-Alaska pipeline has called in backup crews to contend with massive amounts of snow piled on top of its oil storage tanks in Valdez, which has damaged infrastructure and vented petroleum vapors to the environment in what state regulators say are violations…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaskans will pick a temporary replacement for the late U.S. Rep. Don Young in special elections on June 11 and Aug. 16, said Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and members of his administration on Tuesday.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska politicians, election officials and congressional staffers scrambled Monday to adapt to one of the biggest shifts in the state’s political landscape in a half-century: the death of GOP U.S. Rep. Don Young.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A man appearing to be the suspect in a standoff that included the shooting of a police officer was led out of a downtown Anchorage apartment complex without incident Friday afternoon.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A police officer was shot Friday morning during the response to a standoff near downtown Anchorage and is expected to survive his injuries, police said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Miss America had yet to make her grand entrance at a gala in her honor when a couple yawns escaped.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — With high-stakes gubernatorial, legislative and local elections looming, Alaska candidates can now collect unlimited campaign donations after the commission charged with enforcing the state’s campaign finance laws chose to eliminate the state’s contribution limits rather than update them to satisfy a federal court order.

Fans, dogs and mushers have returned in droves to downtown Anchorage in the midst of a snowstorm for Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race's ceremonial start