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- People rest on cots, set up as an emergency cold weather shelter in the former Solid Waste Services administration building, in Anchorage, Alaska, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Anchorage scrambled Tuesday, Nov. 14, to come up with more temporary housing for the homeless after back-to-back snowstorms that dumped more than 3 feet of snow on the city and a forecast of sub-zero temperatures just days away. Several people have already died outside this fall. (Emily Mesner/Anchorage Daily News via AP)
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Anchorage adds more shelter beds after unusually high amount of snow and record outdoor deaths
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Tue,11/14/23-5:30PM , 603 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage scrambled Tuesday to come up with more temporary housing for the homeless after back-to-back snowstorms dumped more than 3 feet of snow on the city in just nine days, an amount that is high even by Alaska standards.
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- Julann Spromberg, a research toxicologist with Ocean Associates Inc., working under contract with NOAA Fisheries, observes a salmon placed in a tank of clear water after it died from four hours of exposure to unfiltered highway runoff water on Oct. 20, 2014. The Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 2, 2023, granted a petition submitted by Native American tribes in California and Washington state asking federal regulators to prohibit the use of the chemical 6PPD in tires due to its lethal effect on salmon, steelhead trout, and other wildlife. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sat,11/04/23-11:08PM , 245 Reads
U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from West Coast Native American tribes that want it banned because it kills salmon as they return from the ocean to their natal streams to spawn.
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- This undated photo provided by Leidos shows that company's retired CEO Roger Krone, who was named Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, as the new president of the Boy Scouts of America. Krone, a former Eagle Scout, says he plans to reverse the trend of declining membership and improve safety programs as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a sexual abuse scandal. (Jay Townsend/Leidos via AP)
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Retired businessman will lead Boy Scouts of America as it emerges from scandal-driven bankruptcy
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Fri,11/03/23-10:31AM , 461 Reads
The new president of the Boy Scouts of America plans to reverse the trend of declining membership and improve safety programs as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a sexual abuse scandal.
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- The old St. Nicholas Church stands in Eklutna, Alaska, on Oct. 12, 2023. A three-year restoration effort began Oct. 13, with the removal of the bell tower. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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Anchorage's oldest building, a Russian Orthodox church, gets new life in restoration project
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sat,10/28/23-11:02PM , 679 Reads
EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska's biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil paintings and jewel-studded incense burners.
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