From homeless teen mom to doctor: Anchorage woman overcomes obstacles
April DeLira wasn't yet a teenager when she became homeless in Anchorage. She was just starting high school when she found out she was pregnant. Raised with men who she said physically and sexually abused her, she found life on the street "safer than ...
Gold thief offers to pay for pilfered nugget
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A man suspected of walking out of a Juneau, Alaska, jewelry store with a gold nugget worth nearly $5,000 developed a conscience and paid for it — after his image was distributed by police through a "crime stoppers" program.
Anchorage Park Receives New Treehouse Style Playground
Anchorage, AK - A community's request for a natural play space for their children has come true. A new treehouse playground was opened at Stephenson Park on Saturday. And volunteers showed up to get the area ready by planting new trees, trimming back old ...
Anchorage Space Examiner
Morris is a computer consultant currently living in Juneau, Alaska. He has been interested in space exploration and the possibility of life on other planets since the early days of the Apollo program in the '60s. He also is an amateur astronomer and is the ...
Anchorage seeing more prescription medication abuse
LEE CO., GA (WALB) - If you've got a prescription for hydrocodone, you can't get more than 90-pills at a time. The new federal restriction is aimed at cutting epidemic abuse of painkillers. When The Anchorage opened 61 years ago, most of the men they ...
Anchorage Launches Site to Track Road Projects, Special Events
In 2013, The Color Run, the Alaska Pride Fest parade and a major construction-related road closure near downtown Anchorage all happened on the same mid-June Saturday. From a city traffic engineer’s perspective, that was the definition of a planning muddle.
Anchorage launches site to track road projects, special events [Alaska Dispatch News, Anchorage :: ]
(Alaska Dispatch News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Aug. 22--In 2013, The Color Run, the Alaska Pride Fest parade and a major construction-related road closure near downtown Anchorage all happened on the same mid-June Saturday. From a city traffic engineer's ...
