Also new: a bike cargo gear showroom, a nail salon, a brewpub, a cat cafe in Wasilla, and a “cafe within a cafe.” A trampoline park in the Northway Mall is closing, as well.

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance revealed she only learned about Donald Trump’s planned sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin in her city the same way the world did—via social media. Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on The Source,

President Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Anchorage, Alaska, for what White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt billed as a “listening exercise.”

B-2 bomber and F-35s stage an impressive flyover watched by hundreds of thousands online as Trump and Putin meet in Anchorage.A U.S. Air Force B-2A Spirit

President Richard M. Nixon and Emperor Hirohito of Japan meet Sept. 26, 1971, in Anchorage, in the home of Gen. Robert George Ruegg, commander in chief of the Alaskan Command at Elmendorf Air Force Base. It was the first-ever meeting of a U.S. president and a Japanese monarch. (Anchorage Times photo)

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Alaska’s biggest city on Thursday night ahead of the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and Russian leader

ICE officials say they detained Santiago “Diego” Martinez, 30, for having a drunken driving conviction. Martinez’s attorney said ICE later told her they made a mistake, but they won’t release him.

The story quickly went viral in Russia, and on August 13, one of the journalists called Warren, informing him that the story had even caught the eye of Vladimir Putin and that he wanted to gift him a new Ural motorcycle and sidecar, valued at roughly $22,000.

Anchorage by the numbers - Gas current price: $3.71 --- Alaska average: $3.77 - Week change: +$0.00 (+0.0%) - Year change: +$0.00 (+0.1%) - Historical expensive gas price: $5.56 (6/20/22) - Diesel current price: $4.02 - Week change: -$0.02 (-0.4%) - Year change: +$0.30 (+8.0%) - Historical expensive diesel price: $6.07 (6/30/22)

An Anchorage man was gifted a motorcycle from Putin for no rhyme or reason. It only got weirder from there - ‘It’s amazing,’ the biker told Russian state media