Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two brown bear cubs cuddle on a riverbank in Katmai National Park and Preserve while their mother fises for salmon in August 2023.

It’s the battle of the bears in Alaska. The fattest and floofiest bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park are competing as part of the popular Fat Bear Week, an annual head-to-head competition aimed at ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown bears and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou ...

Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of the continent, far above ...

Alaska law prohibits waking a sleeping bear, even to take a photo, addressing one of the state’s most dangerous wildlife interactions, in which tourists and photographers risk fatal encounters for ...

Two hikers were hospitalized after fighting off a brown bear on an Alaskan trail, officials said Wednesday. The two people, who were not named by authorities, were about a quarter-mile up the Exit ...

Two brown bear cubs cuddle on a riverbank in Katmai National Park and Preserve while their mother fises for salmon in August 2023. Critics of a state predator-control program aimed at boosting the ...

With just a few weeks before a renewed state-managed bear killing program is set to start in Western Alaska, conservation groups are seeking a court order to halt it. The Alaska Wildlife Alliance and ...