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 ...

Bears are iconic. From good old teddy to the picnic basket-loving scamp of Jellystone, humans seem to love the pot-bellied mammal. Even the illustrated Smokey the Bear, modeled after a real foundling ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (TND) — The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) said it finalized regulations to ban the use of baiting bears with food like decadent pastries or bacon grease before killing the animals ...

ASLC Animal Care Specialist Maddie Welch (left) and ASLC Veterinary Technician Jessica Davis (right) feeds the orphaned female Pacific walrus calf patient that arrived from Utqiagvik on July 22, 2024.

For the organization that oversees commercial fisheries in federal waters off Alaska, the most significant impact of the ...

Snow crab stocks in Alaska’s Bering Sea, which crashed a few years ago, have recovered enough to allow a modest harvest ...

KENAI, Alaska — A respiratory pathogen that scientists previously believed to be restricted to sheep and goats has been detected in moose and caribou in Alaska. Scientists have also identified ...

With the fall hunting season underway in Alaska, the Alaska Zoo has issued a request that could benefit its meat-eating residents. “Calling all hunters! We will gratefully accept carcasses for zoo ...

Conservative leaders feel they now have the political will to remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted ...