Authors and readers participated in the annual Alaska Native Book Fair in Anchorage on Friday to celebrate stories old and ...

Opponents of a controversial predator control program in Western Alaska are seeking a court order ... of Fish and Game from starting its planned bear- and wolf-killing program in late spring ...

April 7 (UPI) --Sanitation officials in Anchorage, Alaska, put their bear-resistant trash bins to the test with the help of some product testing experts: the Alaska Zoo's bears. Anchorage Solid ...

As it turns out, a mama bear and her cubs couldn’t resist using it as their personal jungle gym, photos show. A technician set up the camera after the station near Tok, Alaska, repeatedly went ...

"Along with Fat Bear Week, they'll begin to have a great appreciation for just the amazing environment and wildlife of Alaska." Despite being set in Katmai, neither of the game's designers have ...

there is an ongoing effort to design a "bear-resistant" trash can. When Anchorage Solid Waste Services wanted to test their trash bins, they went to the experts-bears at the Alaska Zoo.

News-Miner opinion: As Alaska lawmakers debate bringing back a defined benefits pension system for public employees, we must remember the hard lessons of the past. Before defined benefits were ...

The Alaska Native-owned Kodiak Brown Bear Center & Lodge is one such accommodation ... Situated on the southern Seward Peninsula, which lies on Norton Sea, Nome is at the cultural intersection ...

Chuck Kopp of Alaska, which shares a border with British Columbia and Yukon and is separated from the contiguous U.S. by Canada, says the state doesn't support the president's trade war and ...

Fiscal conservatives like to say that Alaska has a spending problem. Solve it by cutting programs and the tax-free good life can continue — along with a Permanent Fund dividend every fall.

Looking to escape? Here are two recent trips local readers took to Alaska and Vietnam. Check them out, then find more reader travel inspiration at www.mercurynews.com ...