Tim Mowry

A North Pole Yorkiepoo was attacked and killed by an owl on Jan. 13

Seven guides from Nenana Raft Adventures rafted the Nenana through Healy Canyon last weekend at the highest water levels ever recorded on the popular whitewater river 125 mile south of Fairbanks. "It was huge," Jeff Estes said. "There were holes big enough to eat a house."

A 20-year-old Seattle woman collecting rock samples for a mining company Sunday near Tangle Lakes was charged and bitten on the hand by a grizzly bear, then dragged about 20 feet before being let go.

Four tired and hungry hikers, one of them 75 years old, were rescued by Alaska State Troopers after they got lost and ran out of food while hiking in the Hurricane Gulch area along the Parks Highway.

The Alaska Fire Service recently switched to a new lightning detection system that officials say will record more lightning strikes than the old system, as well as detect strikes at farther distances.

Holding her walking stick in one hand and a bottle of natural insect repellent in the other, Alyson Jones-Robinson wished she had a gun. There was a grizzly bear standing only a few feet in front of her, snapping its teeth and growling at her and her two nieces, 13 and 9, who were huddled behind her, as was her husky, Rowyn.

The Dall sheep ram that took up residence at the Fort Knox Mine three years ago is still living at the big gold mine about 25 miles north of Fairbanks.

The city's general fund grew by $52,000 when the Fairbanks Police Department auctioned off items, including guns and gold nuggets, that were confiscated or unclaimed from the evidence locker.

A three-pawed grizzly bear -- nicknamed "Tripawed" -- that turned up in Denali National Park last summer with a bloody stump for a right front leg is back, just in time for the start of the tourist season.

One minute, Rodd Moretz was high-fiving his 13-year-old son, Caleb, after shooting the biggest brown bear of his life. The next minute, he was tumbling down the hillside with another giant brown bear, wondering if he was going to die and how things could have gone from so good to so bad so quickly.

The lawyer for the 72-year-old Interior Alaska man caught up in a legal feud with the National Park Service is arguing in a federal appeals court that park rangers did not have the authority to stop the man on the Yukon River because he wasn't involved in a subsistence activity.

Alaskans who get divorced and don't want to look at the moose head their hunting-crazy spouse hung on the wall now have an option. They can sell it.

The Alaska Board of Game has approved a plan for state wildlife biologists to shoot black and grizzly bears from helicopters in the middle Kuskokwim River region starting next spring. The goal is to increase the moose population for local hunters.