Anchorage

Hospital offers free flu shots next week

Alaska Regional Hospital will offer drive-through flu shots for free from 6-8:30 p.m. Oct. 14 and Oct. 16.

Long wait is over for Alaska Target shoppers

What is it about Target, that everyday Outside shopping fixture, with its acres of parking, wide aisles and discount swank, that makes Anchorage people freak out?

Video: Take an early tour of the store

Shaindlin was Alaska airwaves icon

Herb Shaindlin, television and radio personality, news commentator and consummate curmudgeon, liked to tell people he was too ornery to die.

Herb Shaindlin dies

Longtime radio and television personality Herb Shaindlin, 78, died Thursday in Anchorage. Best remembered for his 1980s radio talk show called "Desperate and Dateless," Shaindlin's Anchorage career stretched from the 1960s to the turn of the century, his edgy delivery of news and commentary emerging as the most recognizable local voice on the air.

Season's first snowfall catches many by surprise

When Johnson's Tire Service opened for business Monday morning after a light dusting of snow, the line of customers trying to switch from summer tires to winter tires extended out the door.

Current weather and extended forecast

Snow-laden trees trigger power outages

Fairclough gets a free pass to another term in House

House Rep. Anna Fairclough gets a free pass to another term in office.

Convention center proponents call it a success

The proponents of Anchorage's $111 million convention center, which just opened in the heart of downtown, are crowing. The new Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center is a success story, they said, opening on time and on budget.

Fairbanks artist salutes Dena'ina with stained-glass tribute

Video: Dena'ina Convention Center

Pro-Palin rally gets surprise guests

Hundreds of McCain-Palin supporters turned out for a downtown rally Saturday afternoon and were treated to a pair of surprise visitors -- Todd Palin and 7-year-old daughter Piper, fresh off the campaign trail.

Today is deadline for registering to vote

Photos: Anchorage Palin rally

Police dangle keys to bait car, reel in Anchorage car thieves

Somewhere on an Anchorage street, a vehicle is waiting for a thief to jack it. It's a "bait car," specially equipped with audio and video equipment aimed at nailing the hapless soul who picks this car to steal. The vehicle is part of a new program aimed at instilling fear in car thieves that the vehicle they're about to boost could be the one that will bring the cops down on top of them.

Blog: Crime Blog

Police identify couple killed in plane crash

Police on Friday identified the two people killed when their airplane took a nose-dive while taking off from Merrill Field this week.

Family of four displaced by fire

An early-morning fire displaced a family of four Friday when it tore through an East Anchorage home, according to the fire department.

Voter registration deadline Sunday

Sunday is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 4 election.

Suspect jailed in abduction

A 22-year-old Anchorage man is in jail on charges he kidnapped a woman at gunpoint outside her Government Hill home Tuesday morning, sexually assaulted her and then demanded that she withdraw cash from a bank ATM.

City pays $40,300 for waste violation

The municipality has reached a $40,300 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over improperly stored waste, the EPA announced Tuesday.

Homeless men fight; one stabbed in neck

A fight between two homeless men landed one of them in jail on charges of attempted murder after his rival was stabbed during the scuffle Monday afternoon.

Early morning fire destroys mobile home; no injuries reported

A single family mobile home was destroyed in an early morning fire Monday at the Dimond Estates Trailer Court, according to the Anchorage Fire Department.

Selling crack reaps 10-year term

An Anchorage man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for distributing crack cocaine, the U.S. Attorney's Office says.

Moua given 60-year prison sentence

Leng Moua, a man convicted of stabbing his wife, Shoua Lee, to death in 2006, was sentenced Friday afternoon to serve 60 years in prison.

Botanical Garden closes after bear kills moose near fence

A bear feasting on a moose carcass along the perimeter fence of Alaska Botanical Garden Tuesday morning has prompted officials to close the facility.

Interactive map: Tracking bears in Anchorage

Driver of pickup whose passenger died in crash faces charges

The driver of a pickup that crashed last year and fatally injured a passenger has been arrested on charges of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday.

Chugach Electric to shut off power in Girdwood Friday morning

Chugach Electric Association has scheduled a one-hour power outage for Girdwood early Friday. The company said the outage should occur sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. Friday. Chugach will be taking down its Girdwood substation to perform prewinter maintenance on the transformer.