ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

This all too often overlooked Nation Park in Alaska lets you get as up close and personal with brown bears as is humanly safe -- you just have to get there.

There are a number of parks in Alaska where you can view brown bears, but this island boasts nearly as many bears as humans, ...

A woman suffered serious injuries when a bear attacked her outside of her home in southern Alaska, authorities said. The woman, 36, had left her house in Kenai, a coastal city some 150 miles southwest ...

Two hikers were hospitalized after fighting off a brown bear on an Alaskan trail, officials said Wednesday. The two people, who were not named by authorities, were about a quarter-mile up the Exit ...

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Alaska State Troopers say a woman was attacked by a bear near her Kenai Peninsula home Tuesday morning, the latest in a series of dangerous encounters with bruins in Southcentral Alaska. The ...

A woman suffered serious injuries when a bear attacked her outside of her home in southern Alaska, authorities said. The woman, 36, had left her house in Kenai, a coastal city some 150 miles southwest ...