Alaska is packed to the gills with amazing outdoor destinations, but this small town is one of the best thanks to several ...

Animal shelters around the state have seen a recent uptick of stray and surrendered animals, and it’s been an especially tough year for one organization who serves the Norton Sound region. PAWS of ...

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 ...

A wide variety of Arctic animals, including polar bears, are being exposed to a tick-borne pathogen normally associated with rabbits and hares, a newly published study said. The findings are intended ...

Deep in southwest Alaska, a caribou herd that once roared across the tundra at nearly 200,000 strong has shrunk to barely 13,000 animals. Villages that depended on those animals for meat have gone ...

Alaska Wildlife Troopers are urging hunters across the state not to illegally waste meat from their kills this season, after online reports of unharvested animals in the Nome area. Hunting is one of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Firefighters in Alaska got an unusual request for assistance last weekend from the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, but it wasn't your mundane cat-stuck-in-a-tree situation. “They were ...

Alaska's astounding beauty and vast wilderness are unlike any other destination in the U.S. – and even in the world. While you can plan land-based trips to the state, many of Alaska's majestic ...