Herald’s amateur photo contest winners for March capture quiet moments in the natural world. Dave Davis of Inverness takes ...

“They’re just a vicious piece of muscle,” says Qaiyaan Harcharek, an Inupiat hunter in Utqiagvik, on Alaska’s Arctic coast. “Even the bears don’t mess with them little guys.

As it turns out, a mama bear and her cubs couldn’t resist using it as their personal jungle gym, photos show. A technician set up the camera after the station near Tok, Alaska, repeatedly went offline ...

Alaska has well over 130,000 bears, so winter is a welcome respite to their prey. But in recent years, more and more bears have been groggily waking up from hibernation early, staggering across ...

I thought I had a great 'Bear protection' system until I watched a video showing a man charged by a full-size brown bear.

A wolf carries off a caribou hindquarter. While wolves prey on caribou calves, researchers found that brown bears were the primary predator. Photo by Ken Conger / NPS Western Alaska’s Mulchatna ...

A family of bears couldn’t resist using a remote weather system as their personal playground in Alaska, a photo shows. BLM Alaska Fire Service on Facebook A remote weather station in Alaska ...