An Anchorage man who reported intentionally running his truck into a moose is being praised as a hero by his neighbors on social media. They have good reason if the story told […]
Saved by truck
Bears everywhere
The SARS-CoV-2 virus might have upended the world, but in Alaska’s largest city, some things haven’t changed. Summer is back and along with it the bears. They are seemingly everywhere, though […]
All clear!
The wolverine that terrorized Alaska’s largest city appears to have disappeared and nary a moose has been known to have died. A month ago, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued […]
AK bear-attack cluster
With four bear attacks in two months in an area about the size of Phoenix, Southeast Alaska has what can only be called a “bear-attack cluster.” Most of America is more […]
Bear ‘groaned,’ and attacked
UPDATED with victim’s names With a badly mauled hiking guide in a Seattle hospital starting down a long road to recovery, a more complete picture is beginning to emerge of what at […]
Pepper spray ends bear attack
A woman leading a hike along a salmon-filled stream in Southeast Alaska was mauled by a brown bear on Thursday, but saved by a fellow guide who used a can of pepper-spray […]
Bear killed, man shot
Everything happened so fast when a grizzly bear attacked in the thick brush along Alaska’s Humpy Creek at the end of July that Kim Woodman found himself acting purely on adrenaline and […]
Bear, moose victim wakes
On the day after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game revealed its conclusion that a bear attack cum moose stomping on the edge of an upscale Anchorage neighborhood a month ago […]
Was it really a moose attack?
Fifty-year-old Fred Mayac may never be able to tell authorities what happened to him in Anchorage’s Campbell Creek Estuary Park in June where he was first thought to have been the victim […]
Denali bear hunt ongoing
As the hunt continues for a grizzly bear that last week bit a hiker in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, National Park Service officials are discovering a dichotomy familiar to most […]
