The volunteers are staff who are ordinarily employed elsewhere at the airport, many of them in security. They are available on winter standby for airside snow clearance and are termed “polar bears”.

Like other Indigenous populations across the U.S., Alaska Native voters for years faced language barriers at the polls. In ...

According to that study, despite sea ice decreases, there was a stable subpopulation of polar bears between 2008 and 2016 in the Chukchi Sea, between Alaska and Russia. Similarly, between 2004 and ...

A new paper suggests that climate change is leading to previously unseen injuries in polar bears in some of the coldest parts of the Arctic. To do the study, the scientists looked at polar bears ...

A polar bear at the Zoo Sauvage de St-Felicien in Saint-Felicien, Que., Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot Researchers out of Alaska say some polar bears in the Arctic now ...

Alaska is home to a large population ... We saw foxes during our tour of the historic homestead at Bear Camp and a grazing moose on the way to the airport in fishing town Homer, the start and ...

Dear Coach: Happy 85th birthday! It’s time for Sneed’s howdy-do and check-in with the Great Grabowski, Chicago’s legendary Big Bear Mike “The Hammer” Ditka, the tough nut football legend ...

Alaska Airlines is expected to bring daily nonstop service to San Diego Airport (SAN) from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), pending approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer.

Qing Bao is the polar ... new pair of bears arrived late Tuesday morning.The three-year old giant pandas, named Bao Li and Qing Bao, were flown from China to Dulles International Airport in ...