Alaska's largest city has reached a $2.1 million settlement with the family of a 16-year-old girl who was holding a knife last August when she was fatally shot by a police officer. Anchorage Mayor ...

On Aug. 13, 16-year-old Easter Leafa was shot by Anchorage police, prompting community outrage and a series of reforms from ...

Mayor LaFrance said key areas of focus are staffing in city departments, less crime and greater accountability, more crisis ...

Anchorage will pay $2.11M to the family of Easter Leafa, a teen killed in a 2024 police shooting. The settlement ends civil ...

The family of Easter Leafa, the 16-year-old who died in an officer involved shooting in August, and the Municipality of Anchorage have reached a $2.11 million dollar settlement. According to a release ...

Anchorage residents could be seeing a heightened focus on public safety as the LaFrance administration prepares to roll out a ...

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance said the city has cleared 23 homeless camps so far this year, and it will abate two large ...

A plan from Mayor LaFrance includes hundreds of shelter beds, camp abatement, social services and enforcement. Some are ...

"We cannot and we will not accept this as a new normal in Anchorage," Mayor Suzanne LaFrance said in a statement. "We lost a young person in our community who should have been starting her first ...

With public safety concerns on the rise, the city is making some changes. Some of the steps include the Municipal ...

May 20—Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance on Tuesday discussed measures the city is undertaking this summer to improve public safety in Alaska's largest city. "The violent crime rate in Anchorage ...