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 ...

Anchorage Police and city agencies started cleaning homeless camps in Russian Jack North. Residents received notices and ...

Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said he expects calls will go up — at least initially — now that the Anchorage Assembly has passed an ordinance that criminalizes camping in certain areas of the city.

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

Crews from Pallet move new pods into a homeless camp in Portland, Oregon on Dec. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer) For the first time, Anchorage city officials have broadly approved of ...

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

Officials in Anchorage, Alaska, are looking to open a city-sanctioned homeless camp amid a growing crisis. Anchorage is in the top five "largely urban" areas in the United States for family ...

Oct. 3—A growing number of people are living in cars, RVs and other vehicles in Anchorage homeless camps, complicating city efforts to shut camps down before winter and highlighting a lesser ...

A homeless camp that sprung up last summer across the street from the city's historic train depot is seen Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in downtown Anchorage, Alaska.

Four homeless people have died in Anchorage in the last week, underscoring the city's ongoing struggle to house a large homeless population at the same time winter weather has returned, with more ...