As destructive as the West's biggest fires are, their flames still reach fewer places than wildfires touched historically.

Giant Mine, near the subarctic city of Yellowknife, was once one of the biggest gold mines in the Northwest Territories, said ...

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Superior Court Judge Christina Rankin, in an order issued May 19, said the department’s decision to shoot bears earlier this ...

In Juneau, Alaska, what was supposed to be a fun birthday bash turned into an unforgettable wildlife encounter. A young boy’s ...

With more than 7,000 messages asking the state court to “abandon the program and protect Alaska’s bears,” Anchorage Superior Court Judge Christina Rankin’s decision halted aerial gunning in Units 17 ...

A Trump administration effort to limit protections for endangered species' habitats could have outsized consequences in ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game does not have the right to carry out a controversial plan to kill bears this spring, at least for now, a state judge has ruled. Superior Court Judge ...

most of them brown bears, in the Mulchatna herd’s calving grounds between Dillingham and Bethel. A conservation group, the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, has been suing the state since the program ...

The request came after the Alaska Board of Game passed an emergency order in late March to keep the bear program on track weeks after a different judge ruled that it was unconstitutional.

But I had to admit that Max was right. There were more Alaska brownies at Poly Creek than at any other place I’d ever seen. If you could forget that these big brown bears are perhaps the most ...

An Alaska judge told the state it must halt a controversial predator control program that resumed for a third season over the weekend. State employees shot 11 brown bears in the roughly three days ...