Alaska’s bear hunting season is a long-standing tradition thanks to the state’s rugged wilderness and complex ecosystem ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

Adult Kodiak bears may eat as many as 30 salmon a day, although often they don’t eat the entire fish, preferring the skin and eggs when there’s plenty. Fresh footprint of a Kodiak bear yearling.

A pair of Kodiak bear cubs unique to a remote part of Alaska were found roaming the Florida Panhandle and the encounter got even stranger when they tried to play with the responding sheriff’s deputy.

In 1941, while hunting on Admiralty and Chichagof Islands in southern Alaska, I knocked down ... “Once we picked up two ...

About 10,000 people make the difficult trek here each summer to see the bears, some staying at a small lodge or the campground at Brooks Camp, others flying in from elsewhere in Alaska for the day.

I recently decided to surprise my family with a trip to our nation’s 49th state, Alaska. I say “surprise” because I asked them where they wanted to go the most this summer, and they mentioned ...

AFOGNAK ISLAND, Alaska — Everyone here has a bear story. Not a bear-spotting story, which is almost daily, but a bear encounter, a confrontation where both parties have a choice to make — fight or ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...