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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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