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Anchorage pushes forward on delayed drug and alcohol treatment center project at former Golden Lion...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoJun. 15—Anchorage city officials are pursuing a project to stand up a drug and alcohol treatment center at the former Golden Lion Hotel under an agreement that requires to the municipality to ...
Anchorage voters to decide proposal that would better define when an election is held if a mayor...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 30—Mayoral candidates The Anchorage Assembly recently approved sending voters a ballot proposition that would add time-specific rules to the city's charter for filling mayoral vacancies ...
After a pandemic repurposing, Sullivan Arena is about to reopen. What's its role in Anchorage now?
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoJan. 27—The air inside Sullivan Arena is cold again. Properly cold. The cold of an ice rink chilled by the flow of liquefied carbon dioxide pumping through subsurface pipes and sucking the warmth ...
Melting ice makes Arctic a target for a new deep sea internet cable
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe 9,000-mile deep sea fiber optic cable could be completed by the end of 2026. Each day an...
Alaska mayor who wanted to give the homeless a one-way ticket out of Anchorage concedes election
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoAnchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, who wanted to give the homeless one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s...
Mayor-elect LaFrance chooses municipal manager and chief of staff
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJun. 10—Anchorage Mayor-elect Suzanne LaFrance on Monday announced she is appointing Becky Windt Pearson, a former municipal attorney, and Katie Scovic, her campaign manager, to top leadership ...
Anchorage Assembly certifies runoff election results, officially starting transition to LaFrance...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoMay 31—The Anchorage Assembly on Friday unanimously certified the results of the mayoral runoff election, officially making Suzanne LaFrance the municipality's mayor-elect. The election certification ...
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson appoints chief fiscal officer
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSep. 19—Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson said Tuesday that he's appointing Alden Thern to the city's chief fiscal officer position permanently. Thern has been working as CFO in a temporary capacity ...
Bill Popp, longtime Anchorage economic development official, files to run for mayor
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSep. 12—Bill Popp filed paperwork with the Alaska elections agency on Tuesday to run for mayor in Anchorage's 2024 city election. Popp is the fourth major candidate to enter the race, alongside ...
Anchorage economic development group proposes 3% sales tax to help reduce property taxes and build...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoJun. 11—A group of business leaders assembled by the Anchorage Economic Development Corp. is proposing an Anchorage sales tax to offset property taxes and raise money to build public amenities ...
