Here are 12 things to know about the historic, and controversial, summit. Anchorage’s military base: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Trump landed at JBER at 10:20 a.m. Friday and Putin arrived shortly before 11 a.m. They’re scheduled to hold a news conference at the end of their summit and then fly out of Anchorage.

It was a welcome tailored for a close friend, not a war criminal, and it looked to the Ukrainians like their nightmare.

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

It’s a packed weekend between the fair, local concerts, farmers' markets, a bike tour, a clothing swap and more.

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aircraft landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage for talks with President Trump Friday. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Trump would be meeting the Russian leader on the tarmac.

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)

Anchorage police Chief Sean Case said he decided to end the practice of not naming victims after a Daily News story showed it had no legal basis and was raising concerns among families and advocates.

There seems to be very little standing in the way of stock-market bulls right now, but what follows a U.S./Russia summit in Alaska, a central bank shin-dig in Wyoming and the outcome of Bolivia's election may imbue them with some caution.

As Putin steps onto this patch of US soil later today, he will surely be hoping to strike a better deal than his country’s imperial leaders, who ruled Alaska as “Russian America” for nearly 70 years before selling it to the US in 1867 for just $7.2m.