After reaching Alaska, the duo of Laurence Lombard and Frederick “Pete” Blodgett spent some time in Southeast before ...

Wheeled planes in prime brown bear habitat would undermine the sanctuary’s founding statute and 50 years of careful Alaska ...

One of the great marvels of nature is how bears, the largest carnivore in North America, are able to hibernate all winter, living off stores of fat they have built up through the rest of the year.

Nearly killed by a brown bear during a summer hike, Anchorage resident Victoria Lytle reunited with the firefighters, medics and 911 dispatcher who trekked miles into the Chugach Mountains to rescue h ...

KENAI PENINSULA, Alaska - A man in Alaska was hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while trying to protect himself from a brown bear. The man, 32-year-old Tyler Johnson, ...

A woman suffered serious injuries when a bear attacked her outside of her home in southern Alaska, authorities said. The woman, 36, had left her house in Kenai, a coastal city some 150 miles southwest ...

Many know Tony Campbell as the behind-the-scenes creative services director at Indiana State University, where he oversees photography and video of ISU events and people. But in his personal time, ...

Let the chunk-off begin. Voting started Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears ...

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 ...

Native to North America, grizzly bears (also known as brown bears) live in nearly all areas of Alaska. In fact, the state is home to more than 98% of the world’s brown bear population! The only ...