Alaska Fish and Game has received 500 to 600 bear complaint calls in Anchorage this summer, usually from people reporting a bear on their deck, in a neighbor's garbage or running through yards.

Trash that isn't stored properly appears to be a big factor in a reported rise in bear encounters in Anchorage neighborhoods this summer, wildlife officials say. And while Anchorage has made ...

Another black bear balances atop a red fence. Bear sightings in Anchorage abound on social media. Check Nextdoor or Facebook, and grainy security camera footage or a zoomed-in photo of a bear ...

The ballet celebrating man's primitive fear and respect for nature, incarnated in Anchorage as a shaggy bear, has returned for its annual outdoor performance. Jessy Coltrane, a wildlife biologist ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A young black bear has been making the rounds of an Alaska neighborhood in Anchorage and is raiding the residents' trash. A sighting Thursday morning provided people a chance ...

A brown bear killed a hiker and mauled another man in Anchorage, Alaska, police said. Michael Soltis had been reported missing after he left his home Monday for a hike, the Anchorage Police ...

Some residents are putting out the NO VACANCY sign. Anchorage has a reputation for being bear tolerant but after three maulings last summer — including a 15-year-old girl who nearly bled to ...

ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s largest city is home to more than 300 grizzly and black bears and now more than a dozen multicolored ones. Life-size bear statues painted by city artists, part of “Bears ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A 16-year-old boy who was fatally mauled by a black bear during a weekend mountain race in Alaska reportedly called his brother while he was being chased by the animal ...

Anchorage attorney Michelle Bittner filed a separate lawsuit, also challenging the state’s bear-killing program. Both lawsuits argued that the state’s Board of Game failed to follow adequate ...