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 housing ...

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance said her administration is working to ramp up the clearing of major homeless camps. At a press conference Wednesday, she said her team would start to abate two large ...

Elected officials in Anchorage are trying to figure out how to stop big, entrenched homeless encampments from taking over stretches of parks, trails and public land. Just a week after the city’s ...

As I write this, hundreds of people are being released from their winter shelter of Anchorage hotels to where? To our parks. I say our parks reluctantly. Chester Creek. Davis Park. The Coastal Trail ...

A makeshift structure in Davis Park on May 30, 2025, just before the city cleared the camp. Under the mayor's proposal, building structures like this one would be punishable with up to a year in jail ...

Jun. 19—Three members of the Anchorage Assembly have introduced a measure that would add criminal penalties when people sleep or camp in public areas in the city, including parks, trails and sidewalks ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage Mayor ...