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The Riley Fire was at 10% containment Tuesday morning as power remained out in Glitter Gulch and thousands of park visitors made other plans.
The Anchorage Police Department had not previously said what caused Lisa Fordyce-Blair’s death on June 20.
Vehicles were being turned around at the park’s only entrance along the Parks Highway, and the park’s tour and transit bus outings were canceled.
Timothy Bogus-Erwin, 35, was also accused of groping two other women and exposing himself on Tuesday in West Anchorage neighborhoods, according to a criminal complaint.
Roughly 20 houses were threatened by the Globe Fire along a 9-mile stretch of the Elliott Highway on Thursday, BLM Alaska Fire Service officials said.
An investigation into the cause of the fire in the Western Alaska village was underway Thursday, Alaska State Troopers said.
Paul Cottrell collaborated with a man recently released from the Spring Creek Correctional Center to smuggle drugs inside the facility, charging documents said.
The bear was shot just over a week after a similar incident left a woman injured and prompted officials to close two popular campgrounds to many users.
Mayor-elect Suzanne LaFrance’s promotion of Deputy Chief Sean Case comes just 2 1/2 months after Mayor Dave Bronson named Bianca Cross as chief.
Police also said Monday that it’s still not clear whether it was an officer’s shot that killed 58-year-old Lisa Fordyce-Blair last Thursday.
Lisa Fordyce-Blair refused to come outside when police arrived at her home responding to a neighbor’s report that she yelled at him while holding a rifle, court documents said.
Tyler May’s death marked the third time Anchorage police shot someone in a three-week span, leaving two men dead and another man hospitalized.
U.S. Air Force Col. Mark “Tyson” Sletten, the director of operations at Alaskan Command, and Utah flight instructor Paul Kondrat died Tuesday in a crash on Crescent Lake.
The black bear ripped into an occupied tent, injuring a woman early Friday at the Williwaw Campground, officials said.
Troopers identified the occupants of the plane that crashed into Crescent Lake near Moose Pass on Tuesday as Anchorage resident Mark Sletten, 46, and Utah resident Paul Kondrat, 41.