A long-time Cordova woman was mauled by a Brown Bear while hiking on the Heney Ridge Trail in an active salmon spawning area on Tuesday according to Alaska Wildlife Troopers. According to the report, 57-year-old Thea Thomas was at a stream at the trail when her dog and her friend’s dog took off from her immediate area. […]
Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Sitka Police responded to the 5300 block of Halibut Point Road at 6:04 pm on Monday after receiving a report of a bear that had attacked, killed and eaten a dog near a residence there. Responding officers were unable to locate the marauding bear as it had left the area prior […]
On April 11th, after the completion of a plea deal, sentencing took place in Sitka Court for the 2009 Defense of Live/Property shooting of a Brown Bear in Katlian Bay. It was on October 11, 2009 that 49-year-old Patrick Hughes of Sitka shot and killed a Brown Bear in Katlian Bay in defense of life and […]
Alaska State Troopers are asking Kodiak residents to be vigilant of their surroundings after a bear was possibly shot and wounded in a subdivision in the city of Kodiak Tuesday morning. Alaska Wildlife Troopers and ADF&G responded to the Woodland Acres subdivision in Kodiak this morning after being informed of a Kodiak Bear killing chickens. […]