Because Alaska's warm season is limited, animals born there have only a short time to build size and strength.

If you kneel in a patch of early summer tundra and listen closely, you may hear a faint, steady buzz rising from the mosses ...

A lot of the response treated the scene like something lifted from folklore or fantasy.

Scientists and advocates worry the state’s predator control gamble will fail but still expand aerial bear gunning across ...

Alaska, like other states around the nation, is compiling a 10-year plan to guide conservation of sometimes vulnerable wildlife populations. Alaska’s State Wildlife Action Plan, which is in draft form ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wildlife agents can resume shooting and killing black and brown bears — including from helicopters — as part of a plan to help recover a caribou herd that was once an ...

Environmentalists are seeking Endangered Species Act protections for an Arctic-dwelling bird that has not been documented in Alaska since 2018 ...

On Prince of Wales Island in Alaska, wildlife managers are trying new techniques to count local wolves so they can determine how many can be hunted. Limiting the quota is controversial in the ...

An endangered pregnant fin whale was found dead on the bow of Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas after the cruise ship arrived in Seward, Alaska.