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Firefighters responded to a Klondike Court blaze in a parked vehicle Saturday night, with police responding to a fiery crash near JBER early Sunday.

Across Alaska, it’s a challenge to find affordable housing. Home building and vacancy rates are down, while rent, mortgage rates and home prices are up. The lack of affordable housing drives people into overcrowded homes and homelessness, or out of state. Some officials have begun referring to it as a housing crisis. On this episode of Alaska Insight, host Lori Townsend is joined by Anchorage Assembly Member Dr. Daniel Volland, and Nolan Klouda, Executive Director of the University of Alaska Center for Economic Development, to discuss the causes, and possible solutions, of Alaska's housing crunch.

The average temperature in Anchorage was pretty close to normal, and other parts of the state had one of their warmest summers.

A study found Alaska retained 48.7% of people born inside its borders, ahead of only Wyoming and North Dakota among U.S. states.

Alaska's overall influenza case load during the 2022-23 season was much higher than in prior years, according to the state Division of Public Health.

At the Bearcade, a recently opened games bar in Juneau, David Elrod enforces the rules and pretty much smokes the other players.

Division of Public Assistance officials say they fell behind on newer applications for food aid while staff worked through backlogged cases.

The Anchorage Assembly voted Tuesday to put more than $6 million toward the winter shelter plan.

Enstar wants to take over the estimated $10 billion project, but its own CEO says the pipeline isn’t viable without massive state subsidies.

The vaccines were approved for people 12 and older and under an emergency use authorization for children ages 6 months to 11 years old.