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.

A judge’s ruling may have just saved 200 brown bears in Alaska. In a major win for conservationists and wildlife advocates, ...

Waking up to a dusting of powder on the ground and waiting to hear which schools were closed for the day seems like a ...

As it turns out, a mama bear and her cubs couldn’t resist using it as their personal jungle gym, photos show. A technician ...

Alaska has well over 130,000 bears, so winter is a welcome respite to their prey. But in recent years, more and more bears have been groggily waking up from hibernation early, staggering across ...

Looking to escape? Local readers have been busy exploring far away lands in Croatia and Tangier. Here are two recent trips ...

It turns out that what’s real “on the ground” — out in the wilds of Southwest Alaska where bears and wolves and members of ...

Travelling in Alaska — the US’s final frontier — can feel like jumping through a wormhole. Time here is marked not by the clock, but by the changing of the seasons. Though cruising is a popular way to ...

A family of bears couldn’t resist using a remote weather system as their personal playground in Alaska, a photo shows. BLM Alaska Fire Service on Facebook A remote weather station in Alaska ...

Alaska officials are seeking emergency authorization to keep killing bears and wolves in a region in the western part of the state even though a judge ruled a week ago that the state predator ...