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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mountain biker’s bear death
A mountain biker killed by a bear in Montana appears to mark only the second time a cyclist has died after such a confrontation, but there could be lessons in the […]
Still no ID on mauling victim
June 13, 2016 UPDATE: The victim of the attack has now been identified by Anchorage Police as 50-year-old Fred Mayac of Anchorage. Mayac is an ivory carver who traces his family history […]
Near deadly bear attack
UPDATED – June 13, 2o16 Alaska bear attacks don’t come any stranger than this: The Anchorage Police Department is saying a seriously injured man who stumbled out of the woods in South […]
