Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evans and Standley with their giant wolf On Dec. 22 I received a message from a local Fairbanks trapper whom I’ve known for years.

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the city of Valdez in a lawsuit that challenged the bounds of municipal authority within the state. In a unanimous decision issued Friday, the court ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 19—The Fur Rendezvous has been a staple of Alaska winter life for 90 years. Founded in 1935, the festival started as a ...

Every winter, dogs in Alaska are maimed and killed by snares and powerful “quick-kill” Conibear crushing traps placed, virtually without restriction, in public multi-use areas. Alaska’s exceptionally ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s wildlife management depends on extensive research of a large number of populations across a vast expanse of land. Much of the funding available for that ...

FAIRBANKS — Alaska Trappers Association President Randy Zarnke received the Governor’s Conservationist of the Year Award last month at the Safari Club International banquet in Anchorage. Zarnke was ...

The Alaska Board of Game (BOG), a seven-member panel of unelected, governor-appointed officials, decides important wildlife issues on behalf of Alaskans. Because the makeup of the BOG is entirely ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska advisory council will recommend that federal regulators end the requirement for subsistence hunters to mark their traps with identifying numbers. The Southeast Alaska ...

PALMER, AL The large, friendly mutt lost most of the lower half of his left legs after getting caught in an animal trap or snare. Now, the black and brown canine has become a symbol in Alaska for what ...