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Opossums are not native to Alaska, yet Chester, named by the crew that found him, was found hiding in Mendenhall Valley.

The human history of Whitefish Dunes goes back much further than you might expect. Archaeological evidence shows that Native ...

At the Alaska Beacon, we’re constantly trying to figure out where we should put our attention. There’s always more news than there are people to report it. Every Thursday, the Alaska Legislature ...

Warming river temperatures are causing invasive northern pike to eat more fish, threatening already declining salmon populations.

Even the scientists who study the animals rarely see them except on camera. But Gretchen Kay Stuart spent a season ...

Two huge companies thought to have little interest in Alaska investment, Shell and ExxonMobil, spent millions to buy new ...

A long-term project to remove or modify dams may clear the way for endangered wild Atlantic salmon to swim freely up to the Sandy River. But it faces opposition from business and lawmakers.

The Alaska Beacon reported on the Trump administration's bid to overturn a ban on bear baiting first put in place by the ...

Alexander "Sasha" Kaklyugin, a U.S. Marine lance corporal, is being remembered as a "kind soul" following his death in a motorcycle crash on Route 69 on Wednesday.  A 22-year-old graduate of Cheshire ...

Estes Park is pretty clear about how people should behave around its wildlife, but some tourists are crowding around animals anyway.

Glaciers, volcanoes, forested coasts—these distinctive Alaskan landscapes are packed into this rarely visited reserve.