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Location of Anchorage in the State of Alaska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Anchorage, Alaska.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
View of downtown Anchorage from the Hotel Captain Cook. The gold building on the right, the Conoco-Phillips Building, is the tallest building in Alaska and exemplifies the importance of the petroleum industry. While Juneau is the official state capital of Alaska, more state employees reside in the Anchorage area. Approximately 6,800 state ...
KTUU-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, affiliated with NBC and CBS.It is owned by Gray Media alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUU (channel 5).
KYUR (channel 13) is a television station in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW Plus.It is owned by Vision Alaska LLC, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements with Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, owner of Fox affiliate KTBY (channel 4), for the provision of advertising sales and other services.
As of the census of 2010, [5] there were 380,821 people residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 75.08% White, 4.88% African American, 6.95% Native American (a category that also includes Alaska Natives), 4.65% Asian, 0.78% Pacific Islander, 1.94% from other races, and 5.72% from two or more races.
John Althoff from the Canadian Diocese of Vancouver Island established the first permanent Catholic presence in Alaska, then a U.S. territory.His superior, Bishop Charles J. Seghers, sent Althoff to Wrangell, Alaska, to serve that town, the Cassiar mining district on the Stikine River, and the former Russian capital of Sitka.
KOAN (1080 AM) is a commercial radio station in Anchorage, Alaska.It is owned by Iglesia Pentecostal Vispera del Fin. Its studios are located on Business Park Boulevard in Anchorage, and its transmitter is located in South Anchorage.
The 1964 Alaska earthquake, also known as the Great Alaska earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. [2] Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths.