When we think of Alaska, we often think of sweeping glaciers, long dark winter nights, and the iconic Fat Bear Week. What we ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Let the chunk-off begin. Voting started Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their ...

Keep an eye out for eagles, moose and bears along the way ... and any day of the week you'll find skiers and a fair number of fat bike enthusiasts as well "floating" above the fluffy snow ...

Each year, the Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska puts on Fat Bear Week to highlight brown bears with exemplary survival skills. But the celebration turned gruesome this autumn when one of ...

Hibernating animals are remarkably good at preserving lean body mass. Though they lose fat, they hold on to most of their ...

POLE APART. In Grand Junction, Colo., a shiny new police car drove into a municipal parking lot on a routine assignment, ...

9 - A winner is announced in Alaska's Fat Bear Contest. Grazer won the popular vote ... silverback gorilla died on Tuesday after being diagnosed with heart failure the week before. The zoo says ...

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I had lunch with the county’s chess champion. How did that go? Email newsletter signup Sign up for our daily email newsletter It was good, but it took him 20 ...

Dave Barry is a novelist and a former humor columnist for the Miami Herald. Let’s start with the art world, which over the ...

Conservation groups are working with Central Valley farmers to restore critical habitat for wetland birds struggling to ...

In a troubling aviation incident, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 flying ... reveals that he once picked up a roadkill bear, which he later—we’ve all done it—left under a bicycle in ...