UPDATED NOV. 4 – Authorities in Soldotna are now admitting they’re skeptical of a report of a bear mauling near the confluence of the Kenai and Funny rivers earlier this week. A […]
New AK bear attacks
The bear fighter
When the grizzly bear came barreling out of the dark to grab Ronn Hemstock by the shoulder, lift him wholly off the ground, and shake him like a golden retriever playing with […]
Bear maulings peak
The big, brown bears of coastal Alaska have yet to enter hibernation, but already the 49th state appears to have tied the previous annual record for bear maulings. A Thursday attack in […]
Bear attack update
Just days after residents of a subdivision just outside of Seward, Alaska, came under fire for killing a grizzly bear and cubs that appeared a danger to people, the shop teacher from […]
On killing bears
Commentary After surviving nights of terror, residents of a subdivision outside of the small Alaska community of Seward got to become villains. Their crime? They participated in or supported the killing of […]
AK Bear attack #5
UPDATED A grizzly bear mauling of a deer hunter in Southeast Alaska has brought to five the number of attacks reported in the northwest corner of the Alexander Archipelago since Aug. 7. […]
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 […]
