Twenty state legislators convened in Anchorage on Saturday for an annual town hall that brings together the delegation representing the state’s biggest city. Like last year, the town hall was ...

Katie Scovic (right) hugs Anchorage mayor-elect Suzanne LaFrance during a campaign election night event on May 14. Scovic will leave her position as LaFrance's chief of staff at the end of April.

Several Anchorage residents who attended the town hall on Saturday had a ready reply: "Tax me." Alaska had a state income tax until 1980, when booming revenue from the oil industry compelled the ...

The word — gâteau, or cake — has been in their vocabularies since kindergarten, when they began the French Immersion Program at O’Malley Elementary School in South Anchorage. The fifth ...