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 ...

PALMER — A new interactive online map is designed to help trail users avoid encounters between their dogs and traplines set near popular trails around Alaska. The map was developed by the Alaska ...

The front of the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau is seen on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) Ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, Gov. Mike Dunleavy has signed ...

Sen. Jesse Kiehl, D-Juneau, discusses Senate Bill 10 on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. The Senate approved the bill unanimously. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) ...

City of Valdez attorney Jake Staser said the Alaska Trappers Association is pushing for a regulatory scheme whereby a trapline could be set up in the woods next to an elementary school. Zane Wilson, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Board of Game has approved opening the northeast periphery of the Denali National Park and Preserve for wolf trapping. The 4-3 vote, over vigorous opposition of those ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Federal and state wildlife managers have announced an extension of the wolf trapping season on Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island. Officials on Friday announced the extension of the ...

His family remembers Gary Frank Sotherden as a free spirit who spent time in Canada and worked on the Alaska oil pipeline. When he set out on the trip of a lifetime to go trapping in the Alaskan ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska conservation group filed a lawsuit to stop the state from reopening wolf trapping season on Prince of Wales Island. The lawsuit filed Monday by the Alaska Wildlife ...

Snow-covered hills in the Porcupine River Tundra in the Yukon Territories, Canada. In July 1997, a hunter contacted troopers in Fairbanks, Alaska, and reported finding a human skull along the ...