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Alaska Division of Forestry officials confirmed Tuesday that a vehicle fire caused the Montana Creek Fire. It wasn’t immediately clear if the two fires were connected.
The Matanuska River, running high with snowmelt, is threatening the highway near Mile 63 as well as about 13 miles east near King Mountain.
Elsewhere along the Parks Highway, firefighters were working to slow the Montana Creek Fire south of Talkeetna that had grown to 172 acres.
State transportation officials, who had previously said the road wasn’t immediately threatened, now say they’re starting emergency repairs.
Significant air and ground resources were responding to the rapidly growing wildfire in Mat-Su.
The river, swollen with snowmelt, has come within “a stone’s throw” of the highway at Mile 76, state transportation officials say. They are monitoring two other locations.
A near-miss between a vehicle and a pedestrian Friday sparked the two-week cancellation, Chamber of Commerce officials said this week.
Several small fires started in Southcentral Alaska with hot, dry conditions expected to continue in many regions.
The holes formed Wednesday on Minnesota Drive and the Glenn Highway near Palmer.
The titles were returned to school library shelves this month following votes from the school board and a review by district officials.
Wednesday’s vote came after the board last year sharply limited a former representative’s participation after he raised concerns on several topics.
The proposal, to be discussed next week, follows the board’s decision last year to sharply limit the representative’s role.
Richard Best, 54, was arrested for operating under the influence in October 2022 after Anchorage police observed him driving nearly 100 mph on the Glenn Highway, charges say.
The Assembly resolution, approved Tuesday, reaffirms support for the proposed corridor envisioned between Seward and Fairbanks.
The driver was able to get out of the pickup truck after it rolled, but 26-year-old Tyler Anderson was trapped, troopers said.
A long stretch of the Seward-Fairbanks route would fall in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, where a proposed Assembly resolution opposes National Scenic Trail designation.
Officials say the training, provided through a $75,000 program approved last week, is intended to make up for limited law enforcement in the region.
Two candidates including Anchorage’s deputy city manager were finalists for the position to replace retiring City Manager John Moosey.
A route from the Mat-Su College trails to the Crevasse-Moraine system abruptly ends in a construction zone — for now.
The owner of the dogs says he wants them back and that three dead puppies and an adult found on his Caswell Lakes property last month did not belong to him.
The Alaska Department of Public Safety plan to expand tribal arrest authority over a roughly 68-square-mile area near Sutton was supposed to start next month, before community pushback derailed the effort.
The Wasilla Police Department said it wasn’t clear what led to the 48-year-old being on the tracks when she was killed by a freight train Friday evening.
The identity of the woman, who authorities said was lying in between the tracks when the collision occurred, was not immediately available.