For years, rural Alaska communities have struggled with out-of-control dog populations that pose dangers to children, and diseases circulating through wildlife that can spill over into pets and people ...

A state predator control program has culled more than 250 bears in Southwest Alaska over the past four springs in an attempt ...

The Alaska Beacon is an independent, nonpartisan news organization focused on connecting Alaskans to their state government. With the Board of Game’s consent, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is ...

Ketchikan's original melodrama “Fish Pirate’s Daughter” is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month. The show is a ...

The commercial weathervane scallop fishery opened July 1 with harvest levels unchanged from last season, but despite nearly ...

July is peak humpback whale watching time in Alaska. Right now thousands of whales have returned from their winter breeding ...

WILLOW, Alaska—Corey Ercolani pulled a northern pike from a gillnet and slit its belly with a knife. Inside its guts lay fresh evidence of a growing biological crime: a dead juvenile salmon. A coho, ...

Biologists at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge are capturing and banding some of the world’s smallest birds.

In a heartening display of quick thinking and coordinated teamwork, rescuers liberated a young humpback whale from a ...

Alaska's fight against European green crabs is growing more urgent as the invasive species pushes farther north, heightening ...

A juvenile humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) entangled in the opening to Alaska’s Endicott Arm was successfully freed ...

After a hurricane raised the water, he returned to the canal mud holes to see what had become trapped inside. The search ...