Anchorage opens warming centers and boosts capacity at homeless shelters amid cold snap

Jan. 27—For the next two weeks, Anchorage will have three warming facilities open at all hours of the day and night for the first time this winter, after a week of subzero temperatures and with more frigid cold in the forecast over the coming days. Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson said in a Friday evening statement that he issued a public health and safety emergency "due to the extended and …