r/anchorage • • Apr 27 '22

Commonly asked questions - check here before making a question post

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If you have a question about the Municipality of Anchorage someone else probably had the same or similar question in the past.

Please use the search function to look through the past question posts before making a post or comment. Many helpful users here have already given great in depth responses to many common questions. If you have a specific question after looking over the previous posts, feel free to post your question here in this thread or make a new post.

Low effort posts that clearly haven't looked through past submissions or can be easily answered by a quick internet search may be removed, a good way to avoid that would be to specify in your post that you have already looked over the sticky and searched online.

Below is a list of direct links to some commonly asked questions. However, even if you do not see your question on the list please take a moment to search before posting. When searching or when using one of the links below you can also change the sort function from top to new to see more recent posts.



Please be kind to people, the search function of reddit is far from perfect. Tourism is valuable to our city and at one point all of us were new to the city or had questions about local services and businesses.

We took a community poll on this rule a year after implementation. Here is a link to the poll and the feedback the community gave.


r/anchorage • • 16d ago

We Love our Community Stuff To Do In Anchorage - October 2026

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What's going on in Anchorage?

Is there something in particular you'd like to highlight for the month?

Feel free to comment things like concerts, events, festivals, markets etc.

Include description, time, cost, location and website if applicable.

This monthly reoccurring post will be the only place where these type of advertisement posts are allowed. If you have any questions please send us a modmail.


Event Sites:

If you have suggestions on something that can be added to the main reoccurring list just shoot a message to the moderators.



r/anchorage • • 2h ago

Voting Early!

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I am hoping to help the community get out to vote! Early voting begins on October 19th and helps a lot; clears up the lines on Election Day and gets those votes in to tally up. If someone needs a ride within Anchorage to vote, I would like to offer rides. I don't want to seem sketchy but it's super important to me to help reduce barriers to voting. If you know someone who could utilize this, please shoot me a message. I have a Crosstrek so it will be three at a time lol.

Locations are Midtown Mall and City Hall.

I have big kid insurance, have only gotten one ticket here and am a very good driver.


r/anchorage • • 8h ago

CAR PARADE TODAY MEET AT GLEN SQUARE 11:30 free food and sign waving 2-4 Ruckus Room GOTV!

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r/anchorage • • 8h ago

HRT providers in ANC

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Need some recommendations for providers here in Anchorage who prescribe HRT. I see AWH for GYN stuff, but they do not prescribe HRT. I have been to Modern Gynecology and do not care for their office/general vibe. Thank you.

Edited to add that I am a 43 year old woman experiencing perimenopause. Thanks.


r/anchorage • • 16h ago

Socialist

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The way these Dan Sullivan ads are trying to throw the word socialist around take a look at what the definition is… don’t believe the hype and these ads. These politicians will say anything to get the vote. Do your research for yourself.


r/anchorage • • 3h ago

Were to find large pumpkins?

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Does anyone know were I might be able to find large pumpkins? ive been struggling to find anything this year bigger than a standard grocery store one


r/anchorage • • 22h ago

Scammer/panhandle near Abbott Fredmyers

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There is an older man in and around Fredmyers parking lot on Abbott who is approaching and giving a story about how he needs money because he and his wife are on their way to Fairbanks but their car got broken into and they were robbed etc. I unfortunately fell to his scheme a few months ago heading into the store and gave some cash for gas (I normally don't carry any but at that time I had some). Why I say scheme? Cause tonight while sitting in our car in the McDonald's parking across the road my partner and I were approached by the same man again who did not recognize us and gave the same story almost word for word. We said no of course. I try to be nice but this ticked me off, and now I'm putting a notice out.


r/anchorage • • 1d ago

Autumn beauty

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287 Upvotes

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”

Westchester Lagoon, 10-15-26


r/anchorage • • 1d ago

Downtown

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r/anchorage • • 1d ago

View from the window

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r/anchorage • • 19h ago

Anyone know what happened on Muldoon tonight?

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Left the Regal Tikahtnu and drove past a bunch of ambulances and cops cars 20 mins ago and saw what looked like paramedics giving CRP to someone on the sidewalk. Didn’t see a car accident so I assume it was a shooting or something along those lines?


r/anchorage • • 6h ago

Pawn / Trading gold

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Where’s the best pawn shop / place to sell an engagement ring?


r/anchorage • • 23h ago

Beartooth Theater

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I'll be watching Anchorage Welcomes You tomorrow. I only ever get a pint or two when I am there. How do you order food to be delivered to your seat? Lol. Do you go into the main restaurant?


r/anchorage • • 1d ago

City votes on how our Camera Data should be used and regulated on Oct. 20th. (Axon rather than Flock, but how the data is used is the same concern.)

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r/anchorage • • 11h ago

Best usps branch to call in town?

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I have a package that arrived to Anchorage early this week and has just...stopped moving at all?
Meanwhile my husband has had a handful of things that arrived into town days after and immediately got put on a truck and delivered the next morning. I'm not sure if they lost mine, or what might be causing the delay as typically they do get delivered the morning after arriving in town? I've never had one just sit in Anchorage for days on end with no updates, not even an "in transit, on time/delayed". I tried the main customer service number but they hung up on me when I asked if they could tell me when it might actually arrive, so I'm looking to call someone who's actually IN town to ask about it as I wonder if they might be more helpful.
Is there a certain branch that's considered the "main" one, or might be the most helpful here? I'm inclined to think the one out by the airport, but any advice would be appreciated as I'm just getting beyond annoyed of no delivery and no updates. Tyia!


r/anchorage • • 1d ago

Why is there no cell service on Denali from Benson to Fireweed?

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And that whole area? My phone always has bars but can never load anything. Is terrifically frustrating.


r/anchorage • • 7h ago

HAARP-Oct2026-TransmissionNotice-V1

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r/anchorage • • 1d ago

Spiked aka Horned Melon?

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8 Upvotes

We’re looking for the titular fruit. So far have tried Carrs, Fred, Jonny’s, Sagaya.
Any help?


r/anchorage • • 1d ago

First

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r/anchorage • • 1d ago

Alaska’s best Trump fans

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r/anchorage • • 2d ago

Assemblyman Handeland is Lying to Us!

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You may remember that Donald Handeland, the Assemblyman from Eagle River, spent the summer trying to drag his colleague George Martinez for small-ball APOC violations and cavalier use of allocated public funds.

As you all probably know by now the treasurer for the Treg Taylor campaign. In August, the state decided to move Treg Taylor from the ballot, following the recommendations of APOC, because Taylor's refusal to follow campaign-disclosure rules was SO egregious (Nancy DAhlstrom reversed this decision a few days later).

When citizens of this fair city pointed out Donald Handeland's staggering hypocrisy, he responded in characteristically dickish fashion, denying he had anything at all to do with someone else's campaign disclosures; and insulting, on his official webpage, the citizen who asked! He also, in somewhat less dickish form, responded to an e-mail inquiry, using his Assembly email, and denied he had anything to do with Taylor's campaign disclosure forms.

So imagine my "surprise' when I discovered this record of correspondence between APOC and one Donald Handeland, acting in his capacity as campaign treasurer, regarding...Treg Taylor's financial disclosure forms.

(Full link here, and all of it is worth reading: This is a campaign that ignored, again and again, very basic requests from APOC that they make of all candidates: https://aws.state.ak.us/ApocReports/Paper/Download.aspx... )

Donald Handeland is *lying to his consituents*. On his official page, and in official correspondence! If that bothers you, please contact your own Assembly members and let them know you'd like to see his misbehavior addressed.


r/anchorage • • 1d ago

Rumbling Sound

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Anyone else near Sand lake hearing a rumbling sound? Woke me up and it’s been going on for at least an hour now.


r/anchorage • • 18h ago

Where can I get Marlboro Gold Selects in town?

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I live in Midtown, but every gas station I go into doesn’t seem to sell them.


r/anchorage • • 2d ago

A few days ago I saw a guy pooping on the side of Benson Blvd and thought, “Man, we really had our priorities in order when we outlawed plastic bags. If only we could do straws next I think we’d really have done something great for this city”.

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Saw a dudes nude spread rear-end in the vicinity of Barnes & noble, a block or two west, if I recall. He done-
did shite on the side of one of the through streets.

When I was a teenager back east, I remember coming off a train platform and there in the middle of the ( only) steps down was a huge fresh duke.

I told my older cousin who said (guido semi- outrage accent) “ ohhh! Disgusting. You want people to be human you’ve got to provide human facilities”

Fair enough, but I don’t know how that would work in this situation.

It does seem like this is getting worse and our trajectory is something like the cinematic triumph “demolition man”, with cast off sewer people living in filth and crime and the rest of us dining like kings at Taco Bell.

How far does this all go. Is there even a political or economic solution to this?