Authorities search for rogue rodent on rat-free Bering Sea island
The Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea have maintained a rat prevention program, helping to keep the islands rat free for more than two decades.
Wildlife
Last year’s Anchorage-area beluga whale count inspired a small army of citizen scientists. You can join them Saturday.
More than 2,000 people participated in first Beluga Count in 2017, which organizers said spawned a whole network of citizen scientists taking pictures and reporting beluga sightings along Turnagain Arm and the Kenai Peninsula.
Thousands of Pacific walruses again herd up on Alaska coast
Walruses over the last decade have come to shore on the Alaska and Russia sides of the Chukchi Sea as sea ice diminishes because of global warming.
International whaling body approves automatic renewal of bowhead whale quotas for Alaska hunters
In a historic step, the International Whaling Commission permitted automatic renewal for Alaska villages as long as stocks and harvests remain healthy in the future.
Katmai bear cam live stream: Bears plump up ahead of winter
There's still time to watch the bears and their expanding girth as they catch salmon in Katmai National Park, home to one of the world's highest concentration of brown bears.
Ketchikan tour outfit’s eagle-feeding habit prompts city council action
Sourdough Tours spokeswoman Martha Thomas said a city-wide ordinance shouldn't target just one business.
Hundreds of dolphins cut through California waters in a mesmerizing video of ‘superpod’ hunting
Their daily hunting ritual usually occurs far from land. But last week, something far more rare happened.
Shooting of bear highlights ‘infestation’ in Cordova after poor salmon returns
Black bears have closed a fish cleaning station, forced children to evacuate a playground and raided boats.
By 1900, no musk oxen were left in Alaska. Their journey back was from Greenland to Nunivak Island, via New Jersey
In 1930, members of the U.S. Congress gave scientists $40,000 to acquire a herd of musk oxen for introduction into Alaska. And there began an 8,000-mile adventure.
His name was on snares that illegally caught 2 bears. He says they were stolen from him.
Two black bears died in Juneau this summer after getting caught in snares left out past the end of the trapping season.
An avian summer in 4 minutes: Watch red-necked grebes nesting on an Anchorage lake
Red-necked grebes perform courtship rituals, nest and raise chicks on Cheney Lake.
Tiny Alaska village experiences a tourism boom focused on polar bears
More than 2,000 people visited the Arctic village of Kaktovik on the Beaufort Sea last year to see polar bears in the wild.
After 3 days, ‘stressed’ sea lion that ventured into Sitka can’t find its way back to the ocean
Why did the sea lion cross the road? Scientists don't know yet.
Sea lion wanders inland and Sitka officials try to usher it back to water
A male sea lion that wound up about a quarter-mile inland in the Southeast Alaska community of Sitka this week was moved closer to the ocean, but didn't quite get there, officials said.
Here’s your first chance to weigh in on Forest Service plans for Tongass
The Forest Service wants to hear from the public about its environmental review of a plan to reverse restrictions on timber roads in the Tongass National Forest.
Troopers looking for hunter who shot and left caribou to waste near Denali Highway
The wasted caribou carcass was found on a trail off the Denali Highway.
Troopers: Juneau woman cited for dumping fish meal that attracted bears
State officials removed more than 200 pounds of contaminated soil and fish meal from the site, troopers said.
Did the ‘blob’ drive humpbacks out of Southeast Alaska waters? Some scientists think so.
The number of whales in Glacier Bay declined by nearly half between 2013 and 2017 and some whales that did come back were abnormally skinny.