A spring hunt for brown bear on Alaska’s Baranof Island is a bucket-list experience, and, on the author’s hunt, included ...

Bear sightings are not uncommon in Orange County. Lynn Rogers, a biologist who has studied bears for 58 years, and the DEC ...

Madison Glaser spoke with residents in the town of Greenville to reflect on the legacy of Ray Charles, a music legend who grew up in the Big Bend town. The modest home where Charles lived as a boy has ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest ...

There is no cell service in Kenai Fjords National Park, and the two hikers drove themselves to the hospital following the attack.

Get your popcorn (and maybe a plate of salmon sashimi) ready: Fat Bear Week, the annual competition to crown the rotundest brown bear at Alaska’s Katmai National Park, is back for its 2025 season.

Fat Bear Week 2025 is upon us, and the burliest bears of Katmai National Park have been working hard all season to chonk up for the annual competition, with the lineup of competitors dropping today, ...