Karen Matthews

The rule is expected to affect about 340,000 city employees, making the city one of the largest employers in the U.S. to take such action.

It could be weeks before it becomes clear who is actually on top in the city’s first election to use ranked-choice voting.

Instead of closing schools and giving students snow days, the latest winter storm is shutting down vaccination sites and snarling other pandemic-related services.

The anniversary is a complicated occasion in a maelstrom of a year.

Two Anchorage women who won an online contest have become the first same-sex couple to be married at the Empire State Building. Theirs was the first of four Valentine's Day weddings being held at the landmark New York City skyscraper.