The Latest Breaking News from Alaska

Lincoln Peratrovich was killed in his Alaska home in March 2023

The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014 as a one-day celebration, has since grown into a phenomenon among bear enthusiasts worldwide.

“Incessant honking” led Alaska police to the discovery of two bears trapped inside a car.

One group ended up in Alaska, where prison guards pepper sprayed them after one man asked for a phone call.

The brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula have been gorging all summer on an abundant sockeye salmon run

Fattest brown bears, bulking up for hibernation, pitted against each other in online public vote – who will win?

Glacier Bay has over 1,000 glaciers

Indigenous broadcasters scramble to maintain weather alerts, language programs and local news

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape.

Viewers can watch live streams and vote online to determine which bear has packed on the most weight after feasting on salmon.

The bears can reach a whopping 1,200 pounds ahead of hibernation