Alaska scrambling to clear a months long food stamp backlog; Bus driver strike at Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District looming; Two allowing Alaska to raise revenue introduced; 21-year-old man was shot to death in downtown Anchorage

Alaska public worker shortage fuels renewed interest in pension plan; 1 person dead, 1 injured in a head-on car crash in Wasilla; Anchorage history Q&A

8 elementary schoolers were dropped off at the wrong stop in Anchorage last month; Halibut Cove restaurant owner indicted on federal charges; Anchorage’s labor shortage will cost the economy thousands of jobs; Mary Peltola snags a seat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Some Anchorage bus stops remain inaccessible; Snowmachiner found dead more than 10 miles from Kotzebue; Principal of Colony High School transported to a hospital for an involuntary psychiatric evaluation; Anchorage Assembly leaders not satisfied with Bronson administration report

8 Anchorage elementary schools are going without hot lunch; Anchorage Municipal Attorney resigns; Anchorage judge expected to issue decision sexual abuse charges against Alaska’s former acting attorney general; Anchorage Assembly activates its subpoena powers;

The Alaska Legislature begins budget-making process;Girl dropped off at the wrong bus stop and lost in Anchorage; longtime Anchorage medical clinic for seniors set to closing

Fairbanks utility signs deal to buy liquefied natural gas trucked from the North Slope; Snowstorm and rain forecast for parts of Susitna Valley Monday into Tuesday; Palmer woman dies in a 2-car head-on crash on Old Glenn Highway

Anchorage Mayor Bronson’s office accused of using City Hall surveillance video to track staff; Alaska USA will change its name to Global Credit Union; Anchorage Assembly to hold special meetings on fired municipal manager’s allegations against the mayor

Anchorage may need to extend winter homelessness shelter use into spring; The Alaska House of Representatives elect a new speaker; University of Alaska Anchorage celebrated the opening of its Pride Center;

Alaska Railroad employees safe after train derailed by avalanche debris near Girdwood; Polar bear fatally mauls woman and boy in Northwest Alaska