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A concert this weekend features the voices of homeless musicians.

Caleb Leyland, now 24, is the third defendant in the murder of teenager Cynthia Hoffman to reach a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Search and rescue teams on Wednesday were combing parts of the 450-foot-wide debris field covering Mile 11 of the Southeast Alaska city’s Zimovia Highway as well as flying drones.

A 450-foot-wide debris field of earth, rock and trees barreled down a mountainside, swallowing three homes and cutting off the only road to more than 70 households.

No one had been arrested or charged as of Monday afternoon. “There is no concern for public safety,” said a police spokesperson.

Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt stood by his decision to close schools until the roads were deemed safe, and acknowledged remote learning is an imperfect alternative to closing schools.

Drivers have described all manner of trouble: Tires popping off, windows shattering, pieces of bumpers left on roadsides.

All bus routes will be operating Friday, the Anchorage School District says. Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt said Thursday he was “disappointed” the city still had not plowed some residential roads.

The school district will again keep schools closed Wednesday.

So far, a record 49 people have died unsheltered in the city this year.

At least several hundred homeless residents are living unsheltered on city streets and in encampments like the one near Cuddy Park.

Anchorage investigators believe the fire was “started by a small heat source inside the tent where the fire victim was sleeping.”

Three federal cases paint a picture of vast quantities of drugs reaching Alaska from as far away as Mexico.

A report shows Alaska’s overall crime rate continues to fall, but some forms of violent crime — including homicide — are up.

Earlier this month, a new fence appeared in the median of a heavily traveled stretch of Anchorage’s Minnesota Drive. It was about 6 feet tall, metal and dimpled with holes. It had the appearance, one person wrote on Reddit, of a “cheese grater.”