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

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

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

Anchorage is considering setting up a sanctioned homeless camp with small, temporary shelters. Here’s how that might work. The municipality is looking to an out-of-state manufacturer of modular ...

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

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.

O fficials 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 proposal by the mayor of Anchorage to fly homeless people to warmer climates includes the idea of sending some of them to Seattle.

A proposal by the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, to fly homeless people to warmer climates or other Alaska cities met resistance as a Band-Aid solution to the issue.