Anchorage

Blogger builds community mosaic with food

In 2010, Shannon Kuhn started the Anchorage Food Mosaic, which offers a running commentary on cultural food traditions in Anchorage and beyond. In posts, Kuhn and a half-dozen contributors muse on everything from Pilot Bread to mung beans and offer recipes from all corners of the city's patchwork of ethnic communities.

Blog: Anchorage Food Mosaic

Bill would speed trial process to aid victims, families

Sometimes crime victims or their families have to wait months or even years for justice because of delays in the trial process. An Alaska senator has introduced a bill to try to speed the process.

Midtown apartment complex damaged by top floor fire

Anchorage fire crews spent Sunday evening fighting a blaze at a Midtown apartment complex that damaged at least some of the top floor.

Guest robbed by three men in Spenard hotel room

Three men burst into the Spenard hotel room of a 49-year-old Anchorage man and robbed him of jewelry, his cell phone and wallet at gunpoint early Sunday morning, Anchorage police said. They then fled in a black SUV.

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Finding where meter money goes is harder than it seems

Getting a parking ticket is not a crime. If it were, my rap sheet wouldn't be pretty. It's been especially rough since August, when the city's new parking enforcement arm, Easy Park, was born.

O'Malley blog, previous columns

Hundreds gather in vigil for missing woman

A constellation of tiny flames from hundreds of candles lit up Town Square Park during a solemn vigil for abducted 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in downtown Anchorage Saturday night.

Photos: Candlelight vigil for Samantha Koenig

Ex-assistant attorney general, union organizer face charges

A former assistant attorney general and her union organizer friend are facing criminal charges in an alleged 2010 scam to inflate the number of state employees interested in joining a union.

Police talk to potential witnesses in missing barista case

Detectives continue to interview potential witnesses and follow leads in the abduction of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, police say.

After abduction, fear on the rise in Anchorage coffee carts

Candlelight vigil set for missing barista

Photos: The search for Samantha Koenig

Sullivan, 5 others are in the running for Anchorage mayor

Mayor Dan Sullivan, East Anchorage Assemblyman Paul Honeman and four others signed up to run for mayor before the 5 p.m. Friday filing deadline for Anchorage's municipal election, the city clerk's office reported.

Visiting doctor to evaluate locals' marijuana needs

In a meeting room at a Spenard hotel this weekend, Alaskans seeking a medical marijuana card can line up to see an L.A. ophthalmologist in town to evaluate their medical need for pot -- at $225 a "patient."

JULIA O'MALLEY

Abduction makes baristas' vulnerability real

Barista Samantha Koenig's abduction last week sent a shiver through the workers - most of them young and female-who spend their days in Anchorage's coffee shacks.

Candlelight vigil set for missing barista

Photos: The search for Samantha Koenig

O'Malley blog, previous columns

Freezing rain makes roads treacherous in Anchorage, Valley

Freezing rain vexed drivers in parts of Anchorage and Mat-Su late Wednesday and this morning, sending cars into ditches and road crews scrambling to chain up their own sanding trucks.

Autopsy points to homicide in death of Anchorage woman

Police say someone killed Judy Mulder, who was found dead Monday in a Midtown apartment, but detectives are not releasing her cause of death.

FBI assists police in search for abducted Anchorage barista

Surveillance video reveals a young woman abducted nearly a week ago in Anchorage appeared frightened by the man who took her, but police say releasing the video could compromise their investigation.

Video: Police discuss Koenig search

Photos: The search for Samantha Koenig

Roof snow load begins to worry Anchorage building owners

Heavy snowfall in Anchorage has pushed two commercial buildings to the breaking point. But city officials say snow loads shouldn't be a problem for most roofs.

Death of woman, 67, found in apartment called homicide

Anchorage police said in a written statement this evening that a 67-year-old woman found dead Monday died as a result of homicide. Police have not yet notified the woman's next of kin and her name has not been released.

BP gives $1 million for UAA lab to study metals corrosion

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. announced Monday that it will donate $1 million to the University of Alaska Anchorage to help create a lab to study the effects of corrosion on pipe metals.

Police seek public help in finding barista

Detectives and searchers looking for missing barista Samantha Koenig sought information and canvassed city streets Monday, more than five days after the 18-year-old disappeared. Anchorage police want to hear from anyone who was in the parking lot of the Alaska Club on Tudor Road the night of Feb. 1.

Photos: The search for Samantha Koenig

So-called 'psychics' try to claim Koenig reward

Group hopes to lure moose off Southcentral roads with food

The Department of Fish and Game announced Monday that a permit has been issued to the Alaska Moose Federation allowing the advocacy group to take measures in Southcentral Alaska that will divert moose from roads, driveways and railroad lines.

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Girdwood couple gives detailed account of escaping cruise liner

At one point, the Lukes family watched in amazement as Costa Concordia crew members lowered lifeboats, then jumped in and drifted away without taking on any passengers.

Barista's father to captors: Let her go

The father of an 18-year-old girl who police say was abducted Wednesday is pleading for her safe return.