ANCHORAGE – Today, Mayor Ethan Berkowitz announced the opening of 56 units of permanent supportive housing for Anchorage residents suffering from chronic alcoholism, chronic homelessness, and mental disorders. The housing is located at Safe Harbor Inn Merrill which had previously provided “transitional” housing, offering short-term housing assistance without intensive case management. The earlier allocated $200,000 […]
Alaska’s lone Representative to the Nation’s Capitol puzzled many with a comment he made during a back and forth with Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Thursday where he was pushing to have the Gray Wolf taken off of the Endangered Species list during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on that department’s budget. […]
In an incident at the area known as Skid Row, Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a robbery suspect after a brief scuffle, after that man, known only as “Africa,” attempted to grab an officer’s gun as homeless people looked on and an onlooker videotaped the shooting. That video was later uploaded to Facebook. […]
Charges of murder have been leveled at two New Mexico police officers, Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez, that shot and killed a homeless man with a history of mental illness who was camping illegally in the foothills near Albuquerque in March of last year. 38-year-old James Boyd was shot and killed after officers contacted him […]