Ava White

People carry flags during the Pride parade in downtown Anchorage on Saturday, June 24, 2023. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media)

Alaskan households are coming together to throw neighborhood-wide yard and garage sales where residents can meet their neighbors and find some deals. With rising costs, some said the deals are more worthwhile than ever.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits for an interview with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 30, 2015.

Many Alaskans are heading out of town for the long weekend to celebrate July Fourth, which is also America’s 250th anniversary this year. So for this edition of The Anchorage Weekender, we rounded up ways to observe the holiday across the state.

Anchorage residents take a sunny dog walk on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Anchorage on Tuesday, June 18, 2024.

Alaska has one of the highest concentrations of federal workers in the country, and economists have been working to understand the magnitude of the federal job reductions in the state.

Caroline Storm, left, board chair of AKEDA, with guest host Ava White.

A snowy owl used as an educational resource by Bird TLC at the 2017 AFN Convention in Anchorage. On July 10, learn about birds, their behavior and how staff train the wild animals.

The new name stands for Alaska Partners for Animal Welfare and Safety.

A wellhead protrudes from the ground at Enstar Natural Gas' Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska facility on Wednesday, April 28, 2025 in Kenai, Alaska. In early July, the Regulatory Commission of Alaska denied Enstar’s request that would’ve expanded natural gas storage in Kenai, as the region faces a looming natural gas shortage.