The ordinance makes it a misdemeanor to camp near many public spaces, including schools, playgrounds, public trails and ...

Backers say the measure is designed to prevent entrenched encampments in sensitive areas such as parks or near schools and ...

Emily Dixon, who lives near the park, said the abatement comes as a relief. For months, she said, neighbors have felt ...

The mayor’s proposal would criminalize camping in other places, too, including near shelters, highways and daycares.

The vote on a proposed public camping ban in Anchorage was postponed on July 11th and is now rescheduled to be voted on ...

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance says her administration has spent the past year “fixing what’s broken” while laying a ...

Anchorage residents want quicker action, and safer streets, parks and trails — and more enforcement when people are blatantly ...

May 29—Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance said Thursday that the city plans to clear a years-old, significant homeless encampment from a Mountain View park by mid-June. "Large encampments are ...

May 14—For the past three summers, May in Anchorage meant the closure of city-funded homeless shelters, and an exodus of campers into the greenbelts of Anchorage. Sprawling illegal camps, some ...

City leaders in Anchorage are looking to revitalize the downtown making it a place where locals and tourists want to be. Your ...

I penned a My Turn entitled “Homeless Not Helpless” for the Juneau Empire. In that column, I defended then-Mayor Koelsch’s ...