Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of the continent, far above ...

Alaska’s bear hunting season is a long-standing tradition thanks to the state’s rugged wilderness and complex ecosystem management. With two native bear species—the brown (or grizzly) bear and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My first bullet knocked the bear flat, but he scrambled to his feet quickly and came along the beach for us. A jinx is a nasty ...

As an economist who has spent more than three decades quantifying Alaska’s resource-based industries, I have seen how our state’s abundant wildlife supports jobs in rural Alaska, brings in new ...

Juneau, Alaska — Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the ...

When a 29-year-old Anchorage man returned from a bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula in September of 2024, he had a persistent and painful finger infection that defied easy diagnosis. His swollen and ...

Someone raised in Indiana hunting for rabbits and squirrels and graduating to deer may ponder the wider world out there.

Temperatures are rising, snow is melting and bears will soon emerge from their dens. The return of bears to the landscape ...