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The 11th annual Project Homeless Connect kicked off Tuesday morning at the Egan Center and the mission remains the same: reducing and preventing homelessness in Anchorage. Project Homeless Connect brought various agencies under one roof to give...

Homeless advocates like Trevor Storrs, the chair of the Anchorage Coalition to Stop Homelessness, are getting ready for the 7th Annual Project Homeless Connect, where hundreds of volunteers will be providing the homeless with free services. "The whole...

Police officers, the FBI, and Alaska State Troopers analyze people's body language all the time. It's part of their job and helps reveal who might be bending the truth. But according to one local specialist, the rest of us who don't work in law...

The Proposition 5 debate over what's known as the Equal Rights Initiative has certainly been heated. But for all the back-and-forth between the Yes on 5 campaign, One Anchorage, and the No on 5 campaign, Protect Your Rights, representatives from the...

With less than a week to go before Anchorage voters decide whether to add "sexual orientation and transgender identity" to the list of groups protected by Anchorage's anti-discrimination law, new financial reports show campaigns both for and against the...

A radio ad paid for by the group against Proposition 5 says people could go to jail if if the ordinance passes and they don’t comply with the law. Prop 5 is an equal rights ordinance meant to end discrimination based on a person’s sexual...

The 2012 Municipal election is less than a month and a half away, and the debate on a controversial issue is heating up. The ballot measure groups are campaigning for and against is Proposition 5, an equal rights initiative that would extend certain...

A group called Protect Your Rights: Vote No on 5 plans to unveil itself to the public later this week in opposition to the Anchorage equal rights initiative, which aims to extend certain rights to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. If...

Anchorage's Equal Rights Initiative may prove to be the most controversial issue on the April municipal ballot, and campaign contributions from Outside could play a big role.   One side in the debate has reported thousands of dollars of Outside...

One Anchorage -- the group supporting Proposition 5 on the Anchorage municipal ballot next month -- says it's concerned its opposition isn't being forthright with where it's getting its funding. If voters approve Proposition 5, it would become illegal to...

Supporters of an equal rights initiative turned in 13,515 signatures today in an attempt to get on the April ballot. If approved by voters it will provide the same legal protections to gay and transgender Alaskans that are already provided to women,...

More than 800 people were expected to show up for the 8th annual Project Homeless Connect at the Egan Convention Center Wednesday.   The event brings together dozens of social service providers to help the homeless or other residents down on their luck.  ...