Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance said changes to municipal code are helping to make Anchorage a safer place.

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Twyla Dawn Nettie Gloko to four years in prison for her part in a sweeping drug trafficking case that federal prosecutors said moved fentanyl and other drugs into communities across Alaska.

Former Alaska Senate Minority Leader and one of the few democratic gubernatorial candidates Tom Begich announced Julia Hnilicka, a Biden appointee to the Alaska arm of the USDA, as his lieutenant governor in Fairbanks Wednesday evening.