Now, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed the area while it conducts searches for the bear, and officials are ...

The woman was hiking the Basher Trail in Alaska's Chugach Mountains when the bear attacked and mauled her, the Anchorage Fire ...

A spokesman for the Anchorage Police Department, which was leading rescue operations, described the victim’s injuries as not ...

According to Anchorage police, a female hiker told dispatchers she was about two miles into Basher Trail on Tuesday when she ...

The last fatal polar bear attack to occur in Alaska was in December 1990. Similar to Tuesday's, the 1990 attack was unprovoked. York said that in 1990, it had been a thin and hungry bear.

Two black bear cubs were electrocuted to death after climbing a utility pole in downtown Juneau Monday night, temporarily ...