Zachariah Hughes

Rising costs for chemicals, labor, energy, and depreciating assets are behind the request, according to the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility.

It’s also the first year the city has revenue to spend from the marijuana tax.

Several properties on DeLong Lake have water damage from swamped marshlands, an issue that’s worsening from heavy precipitation and big snow loads in recent winters.

The proposal, which will need to be approved by the school board before it can be implemented, calls for staggered closures over the course of three years.

The site pulls together information on street clearing and other snowplow work, and will eventually have real-time tracking of graders.

A significant portion of the housing stock serving the city’s lowest-income residents is quickly deteriorating, they say.

In a few years, Alice Bioff’s Naataq Gear has found thousands of Alaska customers for high-performance atikluks.

It is the largest-ever federal appropriation focused on climate resilience in Alaska Native communities, according to Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium leaders.

Junior Gafatasi Tulali was convicted in April of mailing pills to Alaska, drugs that prosecutors say led to the death of a 22-year-old Fairbanks man in 2020.

Many survey respondents reported needing a bathroom while out around town, but said existing options were sufficient and they didn’t feel public financing for improvements was worth pursuing.

So far this school year, there have been two suspected overdoses in Anchorage School District students.

Proponents project the measure could bring in around $180 million, despite a long list of exemptions designed to limit regressive effects.

Some of the personnel are holdovers from Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration. Several others are coming back to the municipal workforce after time away from city government.

The proposal dates back to the middle of the Bronson administration, when municipal manager Amy Demboski alleged she was fired for raising concerns about unlawful conduct at City Hall.

The increase was driven largely by fentanyl and methamphetamine, and bucks a national decline in rates of deadly overdoses.