Officials have identified more than 1,000 available hotel rooms plus additional rental options in Alaska’s largest city for the hundreds of people displaced to Anchorage after the remnants of a typhoon ravaged their villages earlier this month.
Anchorage Municipal Manager Becky Windt Pearson gives an update on the relocation of hundreds of victims of western Alaska communities that suffered severe damage earlier this month from the remains of Typhoon Halong to Anchorage, during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) AP
Becky Windt Pearson, Anchorage’s municipal manager, told a news conference Tuesday that leaders are working to expedite moving people from two large shelters in the city to more private accommodations in line with the ai