Anchorage mayors battle it out over tax cap initiative and other top stories.

• Anchorage mayors battle it out over tax cap initiative

  Anchorage’s current mayor is locked in a debate with his predecessors about how much the city’s limit on property taxes can grow from year to year, the focus of an initiative on the April 5 city ballot.  With Proposition 8, a group led by former Mayor Dan Sullivan is seeking to amend city charter — essentially the city’s constitution — and overturn an ordinance passed last fall by the Anchorage Assembly that loosened limits on the growth of the tax cap.Sullivan, conservative groups like American..

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• Anchorage police ask public's help in locating sexual assault suspect

  

  Anchorage police are looking for a man allegedly involved in a felony sexual assault who has been the subject of an arrest warrant since October 2015.Young Chul Kim, aka “James Kim,” 58, is described by police as 5-foot-7 and weighing 160 to 170 pounds. Kim is believed to be in the Anchorage area and using disguises, according to police. An image of a man with a mustache and baseball cap was identified by police as Kim.Kim is “possibly staying with members of the Korean community who may or may ..

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• Lawmakers offer $32.5 million to buy Anchorage office building

  

  JUNEAU -- A week after a Superior Court judge invalidated the Legislature's lease of an Anchorage office building at the center of a longstanding controversy, lawmakers voted 13-1 to offer to buy the building and land located at 716 West Fourth Avenue for $32.5 million. Rep. Mark Neuman, R-Big Lake, chairs the House Finance Committee and was the only no vote.Bob Acree and Mark Pfeffer, the developers who renovated and own the property under a contract brokered by Rep. Mike Hawker, R-Anchorage,..

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• Spending a Day with Anchorage Airport

  

  The mountains that surround Anchorage provide some stunning views. Photos and Story By: Brandon Farris / Published: April 01, 2016 While Airways News Correspondent Brandon Farris was recently on vacation up in the “The Last Frontier,” the State of Alaska, we spent the day at the Anchorage Airport and sat down with airport manager John Parrot, spent some time with the Airport Police and Fire department, and finally with Airport Operations. In this first part about Anchorage, we will talk about t..

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• Experts gather at CDC for Zika summit

  

  (CNN) - "Our biggest challenges are speed and scale," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said to experts from across the nation attending the Zika Action Plan Summit in Atlanta on Friday. The daylong gathering convened exactly 10 weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sounded the alarm on the Zika virus by issuing its first travel advisory. Four-hundred twenty-five local, state and federal health officials and experts in maternal medicine and mosquito control spent the day at t..

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• More of the global population now obese than underweight

  

  Estimated read time 1m 9s More of the global population now obese than underweight By CBS News 2:43 PM April 1, 2016 We now live in a world where more people are obese than underweight, new research published in The Lancet finds. The analysis draws on more than 40 years of data on global, regional, and national trends in body mass index (BMI) in adults 18 and older. “The world as a whole is getting heavier and it’s getting heavier by about 1.5 kilograms [3.3 pounds] per decade on ave..

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