State and federal managers have reduced the combined limit for the federal subsistence and state general hunts to nine wolves in SE Alaska.

Authorities want to talk to a man who donned a fairly realistic bear costume, head and all, and wore it when harassing a mother bear and two cubs trying to feed on pink salmon.

Two employees of an Alaska backcountry lodge startled an adult grizzly bear while running on a trail in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. The bear stepped out of thick brush and mauled one woman while the other ran for help.

A Kodiak homeowner shot and killed a 9-foot-tall bear on his lawn after it charged him. Six shots were need to bring down the 1,000 pound bear.

Alaskan biologists have again killed dozens of bears in an effort to increase the number of available moose for subsistence hunters in part of the western Interior.

A Dauphin Island woman wants to know the fate of her two pet deer after wildlife officials removed them and said they were a danger to the public.

Kenai National Wildlife refuge officials have ordered an emergency closure of sport hunting of brown bears, saying that more than 10 percent of the bears on the Peninsula have already died this season.

From the northern Rockies to the Great Lakes region, wolves have flourished at the expense of shrinking big-game herds, which are largely supported and funded by hunters.