Anchorage's Homeless

Police identify woman found dead at Russian Jack park

Police say a woman died inside a tent at Russian Jack Springs Park in East Anchorage late Friday.

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ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

Catholic Social Services plans more beds for homeless

There soon will be many more beds for Anchorage's homeless women and children in Anchorage.
ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

Apparent homeless woman found dead

A 36-year-old woman was found dead outdoors in July, but there were no signs of violence or foul play, Anchorage police said Tuesday.
ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

UPS donates nearly $7,000 to Anchorage soup kitchen

Bean's Cafe has received $6,750 from the United Parcel Service's charitable arm for new kitchen equipment.
ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

Success of Karluk Manor depends on who you ask

Nearly six months after opening Alaska's first "Housing First" residence, founders say most tenants appear to be healthier and drinking less. But three residents have died of alcoholism-related causes at the facility, which provides chronic homeless alcoholics housing without the precondition that...
ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

Homeless camps return as the snow recedes

Anchorage officials hope there will be fewer homeless camps in city greenbelts this summer, because of an ordinance that gives police the power to evict campers and a new facility that has taken some chronic alcoholics off the streets.
ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

Police: Jealous woman stabbed boyfriend at Karluk Manor

A stabbing Saturday afternoon at Karluk Manor, a housing program for chronic street alcoholics near downtown Anchorage, was rooted in jealousy, Anchorage police said Sunday.
ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

Assembly lowers temperature at which churches can take in homeless

A change by the Anchorage Assembly will provide more overnight housing options for the city's homeless in cold weather.
ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

Second man dies in Anchorage home for chronic alcoholics

A man died late Tuesday in his room at Karluk Manor, the second death in a month at the housing facility for homeless chronic alcoholics. Anchorage police say the death is not suspicious.
ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

Cold prompts city to revisit rule on alternate homeless shelters

As one of the coldest months in Anchorage history ends, the city is proposing to raise the temperature at which it allows churches and social service facilities not normally used as homeless shelters to take in people from the streets.
ANCHORAGE'S HOMELESS

Trail of illness and addiction led to man's death at Karluk Manor

For all of the years Suzanne Edwards' brother John Kort lived on the streets of Anchorage, she feared he'd freeze to death or be murdered. Instead, Kort died in his room at Karluk Manor on New Year's Day, a few weeks after moving in.