Anchorage news

• Spokane’s ‘tough love’: City uses rocks to deter homeless camping

  03-09-2017 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The city of Spokane is spending $150,000 to place boulders under an overpass in hopes of detering the homeless population from camping there. (Photo by Emily Schwing/Northwest News Network)https://cpa.ds.npr.org/northwestnews/audio/2017/09/090117ES_BoulderMoving_web.mp3As Seattle and Portland struggle with how to accommodate homeless residents, Spokane is catching flack for it’s “tough-love” approach to homeless camping.
  Under an overpass for Interstate 90 in Spokane, four lane
  
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• North Korea brandishes what it says is a missile-ready H-bomb

  03-09-2017 19:49 via ktoo.org
  North Korea says it’s developed a “super explosive” hydrogen bomb that fits on an intercontinental ballistic missile, according to multiple media reports citing the country’s state news agency.
  During a visit to the country’s Nuclear Weapons Institute, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched as the purported H-bomb was loaded into a new ICBM.
  Photos released by the Korean Central News Agency show Kim observing a silver, bulbous metal casing. KCNA claims it’s a
  
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• Syringe exchange struggles to keep up with demand

  03-09-2017 19:15 via ktoo.org
  Discarded needles at the Four A’s syringe exchange in Anchorage. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)
  The state’s main syringe exchange can’t keep up with demand for clean needles among injection drug users.
  The Alaska AIDS Assistance Association, or Four A’s, collects used syringes in its Anchorage office and gives out new supplies, primarily to people using heroin and other opioids.
  The idea is to reduce the spread of disease and direct people abusing drugs t
  
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