A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction. Alaskans want to bring it home
Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad.
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Anchorage saw a near-record 34 homicides in 2024
The total is a sharp rise from 2023's 23 homicides, but still below the city's modern record of 38 set in 2017.
As South digs out from brutal storm, Florida cities still more frigid than Alaska
The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your snow to Anchorage."
New Orleans has seen more snow than Alaska’s biggest city so far this winter
New Orleans has received more snowfall since the start of meteorological winter than many cold-weather cities across the country.
How cold did it get this morning? Anchorage 16 degrees warmer than this Florida city
Florida residents in four locations woke to very chilly temps. It was 25 in Tallahassee at 6 a.m. By comparison, it was 41 in Anchorage, Alaska.
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An ancient Dene cache discovered at JBER highlights Anchorage’s Indigenous history
The birch bark-lined cellar turned out to be almost a thousand years old – the oldest discovery of its kind in Southcentral Alaska, archeologists said.
Anchorage School District’s plan to get attendance up
Anchorage School District said it’s aware of Alaska’s chronic absenteeism rates, and is currently working to get more students in school.
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Election reforms are on the agenda for Alaska lawmakers this year
Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced a bill through the House, and the Senate majority is expected to introduce its own election reforms later this week.
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Warm, ‘incredibly wet’ weather could lead to weekend flooding in Southcentral Alaska
It may be January, but the unusually warm, rainy weather feels more like spring breakup, and it’s bringing the kind of flooding concerns also usually not seen in the Anchorage area until later in the year.
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New Orleans has received twice as much snow as Anchorage this winter
New Orleans has received more than twice the snowfall as Anchorage this winter — underscoring Southcentral Alaska’s meager snow season as much as the rare winter storm that pummelled that subtropical Louisiana city this week.
South Mississippi: Same temperature as Antarctica, and more snow than Anchorage, Alaska
Cairo and its ancient pyramids sits on nearly the exact same line of latitude as the Mississippi Coast. Weather there on Wednesday peaked at 71 degrees with a light rain around noon. Dead pharaohs can expect temps to rest in the upper 60s for the remainder of the week.
New England on Wednesday was colder than Anchorage, Alaska
Boston and the rest of New England have been dealing with well below-average temperatures, in some cases falling 20 degrees, as an expansive mass of Arctic air spreads across the eastern half of the United States. This cold surge is making our region this week feel colder than Anchorage, Alaska, which is topping out at 36 degrees.