Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad.

The total is a sharp rise from 2023's 23 homicides, but still below the city's modern record of 38 set in 2017.

Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Kenai Peninsula are under a flood watch from Friday morning through Monday morning.

The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your snow to Anchorage."

New Orleans has received more snowfall since the start of meteorological winter than many cold-weather cities across the country.

“We are going to see 3000 jobs added to the Anchorage economy, personal incomes are going to continue to rise, inflation’s going to stagnate,” Wright said. “But we are going to continue to struggle with people that we need to fill the roles here in Anchorage.”

It may be January, but the unusually warm, rainy weather feels more like spring breakup, and it’s bringing the kind of flooding concerns also usually not seen in the Anchorage area until later in the year.

Florida residents in four locations woke to very chilly temps. It was 25 in Tallahassee at 6 a.m. By comparison, it was 41 in Anchorage, Alaska.

The Gulf Coast city that rarely sees snowflakes has received more than double the snowfall that Anchorage has since Dec. 1, the start of the meteorological winter.

If you've ever wanted to perform on stage, the Cyrano's Theater Company in Anchorage is holding auditions this Saturday! The company is looking to find a cast to put on the play Twinkle's Fairy Pet Day. There are five roles up for grabs, including the main character, Twinkle.

Temperatures plunged below freezing across parts of northern Florida on Wednesday, with some areas even dipping into the teens, making parts of the Sunshine State colder than Anchorage, Alaska.

Boston and the rest of New England have been dealing with well below-average temperatures, in some cases falling 20 degrees, as an expansive mass of Arctic air spreads across the eastern half of the United States. This cold surge is making our region this week feel colder than Anchorage, Alaska, which is topping out at 36 degrees.