Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Grizzly bears search for migrating salmon to help fatten up for the winter hibernation, at Brooks Falls in Katmai ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of ...

WASHINGTON — Baiting grizzly bears with doughnuts soaked in bacon grease. Using spotlights to blind and shoot hibernating black bear mothers and their cubs in their dens. Gunning down swimming caribou ...

Deep in southwest Alaska, a caribou herd that once roared across the tundra at nearly 200,000 strong has shrunk to barely 13,000 animals. Villages that depended on those animals for meat have gone ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

The lawsuit filed in state court says the program adopted by the Alaska Board of Game in July doesn't require the Department of Fish and Game to monitor bear populations to ensure their numbers remain ...

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 ...