The Trump administration formally moved this week to open the entire coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife ...

Anchorage got a special delivery on Friday from the North Slope; dozens of totes loaded with nearly 2,000 pounds of subsistence food for victims of Halong, including whale meat, fish and caribou, ...

The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge ...

President Warren Harding first set aside the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska in 1923 as an emergency oil supply for the U.S. Navy.

Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to host a four-day emergency management course in Utqiagvik in September, 2025. A tribe on the North Slope ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place ...

As Alaska’s Fat Bear Week came to a close, the winner was a 1,200-pound bruiser who showed “adaptability” after a major injury. By Madison Malone Kircher After a weeklong battle to the finish, this ...

The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014 as a ...

ST. LOUIS — A male polar bear is leaving the Saint Louis Zoo and heading across the country. The zoo said Kallik will move to the Oregon Zoo in Portland later this fall. "The moves are part of a ...

The bracket for Fat Bear Week 2025 has been revealed, and 12 bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are looking for votes from all over the world — but only one will be crowned the ...

ST. LOUIS – In a national effort to help advance the species’ conservation, polar bear Kallik will be leaving the St. Louis Zoo. According to the St. Louis Zoo—who shared the announcement on ...

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 ...