Last Top Stories: UPDATE: Anchorage, Eagle River roads re-opened following slippery morning commute | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

• UPDATE: Anchorage, Eagle River roads re-opened following slippery morning commute | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

  

  ANCHORAGE –Last Updated: 10:54 a.m. MondayAll roads have been re-opened following a a slippery morning commute in the Anchorage and Eagle River areas.As of 10:45 a.m., Anchorage police received calls for 30 accidents, 2 injury accidents and 45 vehicles in distress, according to APD spokesperson Anita Shell.Just before 10 a.m., Anchorage police received a report of a rollover near Tudor Road and Patterson Street. The occupants managed to escape the vehicle and did not request medical services, ac..

  >> view original



• Spice, texting-while-driving laws, speeding tickets up before...

  

  Tougher penalties for the drug Spice, bigger speeding tickets and a new fine for texting while driving are all proposals coming up before the Anchorage Assembly in a packed agenda Tuesday night.“Bring your jammies and your popcorn,” Assembly chair Dick Traini said Monday. “We’re going to be there awhile.”Traini said the Assembly is expected to passa proposal from Mayor Ethan Berkowitzthat would make the possession and sale of certain synthetic drugs, like Spice and bath salts, a crime. The propo..

  >> view original



• Scott Jensen / ADN

  Another winter storm had dumped on Anchorage and the Mat-Su by Monday morning, and once again it disrupted the routines of area residents and students. After a reprieve from the snow in the afternoon,  isolated snow showers had returned by evening and were forecast through the rest of the week.Snow is expected to continue in Anchorage and the Mat-Su through Wednesday night,the NWS wrote in a public forecast. Unlike Sunday’s snowstorm, which the NWS had issued a weather advisory for because of it..

  >> view original



• Anchorage students score better than statewide average on new standardized test | Alaska Dispatch News

  

  Students in Alaska’s five largest school districts, including Anchorage, did better than the statewide average on the new standardized tests in English and math that they took for the first time last spring, according toscores released Mondayby the state education department.However, in some of the larger rural school districts, the percentage of students meeting standards for their grades remained in the single digits.Across Alaska, the percentage of students scoring proficient -- or meeting st..

  >> view original



• New map offers look at Anchorage’s work on “plowouts” | Alaska Dispatch News

  

  With winter snowplowing work looming andicy roads closing local schools Monday,the Municipality of Anchorage has releasedan online map tracking the city’s efforts to keep local roads clear.“Plowouts” of roads, initiated when the city receives a 4-inch accumulation of snow,take place over a three-day periodbased on one of two plans. One of the plans moves from east to west and the other vice versa, but city officials said in 2013 thatmuch of Midtown is plowed on day 2 of both plans.“We can’t cont..

  >> view original



• MAT-SU BOROUGH: Middle, High school students out 15 minutes early Monday | Local News - KTUU

  

  MAT-SU BOROUGH UPDATE 12:30 p.m.:Mat-Su Borough School District officials will be letting Middle and High School students out early Monday.Students will be released at 2 p.m. with buses departing from the schools at 2:10 p.m. - a decision made to ensure that routes are not backed up with drivers and buses."Middle School after-school activities are cancelled. High School Activities will be held at the discretion of the Principals," officials wrote in a post on their public information Facebook pa..

  >> view original



• 'A broken heart isn't to be resisted

  

  ANCHORAGE -The downtown transit center isn't a place for solitude. Street kids are smoking. You cross the street to avoid an angry, hazy-eyed stranger. The working poor are milling about.But, if you follow the arrows to The Listening Post, you find a spiritual oasis. It’s a room bathed in golden light. Walk inside and you're offered warm tea. Sit in the contemporary looking chairs and look up to see paper cranes dangling from the ceiling.“I love the simplicity of being with another human being,”..

  >> view original



• Booth named new executive director at Anchorage Children's Home - News - Panama City News Herald - Panama City, FL

  

  Anchorage Children's Home's Board of Directors has announced the hiring of Joel Booth as the new executive director for Anchorage Children's Home.

  >> view original



• Treacherous roads prompt school cancellation in Anchorage | Juneau Empire - Alaska's Capital City Online Newspaper

  ANCHORAGE —Classes in Alaska’s largest school district have been canceled because of treacherous road conditions following an overnight snowstorm.Anchorage school spokeswoman Heidi Embley says the district decided to cancel classes Monday due to icy road conditions that became worse as the morning commute got busier.The Alaska Dispatch News reported police dispatchers had reports of 11 accidents and two more with injuries. Almost all of those were in town. Dispatchers had reports of more than 25..

  >> view original



• Former assisted living home employees say caretaker's death was...

  

  ANCHORAGE –Two former Eye to Eye Assisted Living Home employees are speaking out against the company, after Anchorage police say a caretaker was attacked andkilled by a patientover the weekend.It happened at a home on Viburnum Drive, near East 68th Avenue and the Seward Highway. The Anchorage Police Department said patient Gilbert Nashookpuk, 25, strangled, kicked and punched his 57-year-old caregiver, Glenna Whylie, to death Saturday night. He told police it was because she made him mad.“That c..

  >> view original