Alaska is facing a heavy fee for inaccurately determining eligibility for food stamp benefits, according to a letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service.
In late June the Girdwood Fire Department received something it’s been asking for for several years. A brand-new rescue boat the department says will be safer to operate and better able to maneuver the waters of Portage Lake, Portage Creek and Twentymile River.
Former Anchorage Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance is officially the first elected female mayor of Anchorage. She was sworn in Monday in Town Square Park in front of residents and supporters.
The Alaska Supreme Court has unanimously reversed a Superior Court ruling that had struck down Alaska’s correspondence school statutes as unconstitutional, restoring the program as it has existed for the last ten years.
When Anchorage’s Midtown Transfer Station moved across the street into a brand new facility, it left behind the old transfer station and administrative offices. Now, both buildings have new functions, the administrative office is a homeless shelter, and the tipping floor of the former transfer station has become a place to drop off organic material.
The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places, overturning a California appeals court ruling that found such laws amount to cruel and unusual punishment when shelter space is lacking. In Anchorage it has been used as a reason why large, often dangerous, homeless camps have been allowed to thrive.