On Dec. 22 I received a message from a local Fairbanks trapper whom I’ve known for years. It included a photo of an enormous black wolf he and his trapping partner had just caught, as well as the ...

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the city of Valdez in a lawsuit that challenged the bounds of municipal authority within the state. In a unanimous decision issued Friday, the court ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, the Anchorage Assembly voted in favor of a policy change that could affect animal trapping. After recent reports of dogs dying from getting caught in traps, the goal of the new ordinance ...

Feb. 22—Fur Rendezvous has been a staple of Anchorage winter life for nearly 90 years. Founded in 1935, the festival started as a celebration that coincided with miners and trappers coming to town to ...

FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Trappers Association is holding its annual general trapping school on Oct. 16-17 at Lost Lake Scout Camp at 306 Mile Richardson Highway. The two-day workshop teaches wannabe ...

But that is the case for Frederick Currier, an early Fairbanks gold miner who wrote a story of his exploits in the Far North.

The Alaska Board of Game has rejected two efforts to toughen state trapping laws and overturned another law opposed by trappers. During a 10-day statewide meeting in Fairbanks that ended Saturday, the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska advisory council will recommend that federal regulators end the requirement for subsistence hunters to mark their traps with identifying numbers. The Southeast Alaska ...

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 ...

J.R. Pederson was 19 years old and fresh out of school at Dakota College in Bottineau, North Dakota, when the call of adventure led him away from the prairie and north to the rugged wilderness of ...