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Denali National Park says staff members are searching for a young grizzly bear that charged at visitors and vehicles in a parking lot and on a trail. Park officials say in a statement that the grizzly bear approached humans and vehicles Wednesday and earlier in the week. The officials say that early this week, the…

Police will remain at the Alaska Pride Festival after officers broke up an altercation between participants and Westboro Baptist Church protesters. The Anchorage Police Department said in a statement that officers provided extra security Saturday during the Alaska Equality Parade in downtown Anchorage following the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. Officers resumed their regular patrol…

The Alaska Zoo in Anchorage has welcomed a new male wolverine to join a female already on exhibit. KTVA-TV reports that Jumbo, a 3-year-old male from Sweden, arrived at the zoo on Wednesday but is currently being quarantined from his partner Olga. Zookeeper Kora Isakson says Jumbo and Olga will hopefully breed together, though at…

A man suspected of fatally shooting another man outside a Fairbanks bar last year has been arrested in Ohio. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that detectives with the Fairbanks Police Department went to Cleveland, Ohio last week to arrest 23-year-old Patrick Dale Burton on a warrant for first-degree murder. Burton is suspected of shooting 23-year-old…

A 42-year-old North Pole resident suspected of shooting an Anchorage man to death last year at a North Pole home has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Matthew Burton Davis entered the plea Thursday in Fairbanks Superior Court in the death of 34-year-old John Adam Chilcote. Chilcote was staying with a…