...heroic Mountie and a villain you will simply love to loathe! Add to their ranks a snow-blinded Indian, a flapjack-filching bruin and one befuddled lass who keeps forgetting her identity, and you have a madcap farce in the finest and funniest tradition...

The day after a bear attacked a Nikiski fisherman officials found no sign of the bruin. "We were unable to find the location of the attack," said National Park Service District Ranger Jack Blackwell. Blackwell...

Traffic was bumper to bruin on at least two occasions near Cooper...Mile 49.5, near Summit Lake, when the bruin attempted to cross the road from east...unscathed and ran into the woods. Another bruin hit by a vehicle Monday was not as fortunate...

...said. Selinger determined the bruin also had been blasted with birdshot...Enforcement responded to a report of a bruin laying dead along the bank of...262-4573 or (800) 478-3377. A bruin, quite possibly one familiar...The Longmere Lake trio of bruins a brown bear sow and her two...

...evening when a bump in the night that woke him turned out to be a bruin, rather than a burglar. "My grandson had quite an experience...securely closed. Lewis said this incident was an example that bruins are still out and foraging for food despite the cooler temperatures...

...home off of McCollum Drive, off the Kenai Spur Highway, across from Tinker Lane. Lewis said the dead bear wasn't the only bruin to make an appearance that morning. "According to the man, he heard a commotion and looked outside to see two bears standing...

...debris back into the pickup and wait until dark when the bad boy bruin returned for seconds and then morph the miscreant into a driveway...up too, including one of my neighbors until he spotted the bruin, a few days later, doing Mach 5 out of his bird coop with...

?Bears everywhere? is a good way to describe bruin activity this past week, and as a result the Kenai Peninsula...to the house, but Lewis said it was unclear if it was the bruin with the injured leg. ?The bear stuck its arm through the...

Human encounters with bears even during their hibernation season seem to becoming more common on the Kenai Peninsula according to Alaska Department of Fish & Game Wildlife Technician Larry Lewis, ?We?re seeing a lot more year round problems with bears, later in the season and earlier in the season and a lot of that activity is not due to bear behavior but human behavior,? says Lewis. Readily available food sources is what Lewis believes is responsible for keeping bears out and about rather then in their dens conserving their energy reserves, ?I equate available garbage to bear cocaine, they become addicted to it, it?s an easy food source and they get a lot of bang for the buck so to speak or return for their effort and so there is no reason for them to go away when the food is readily accessible.?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- While the brown bear viewing business in Alaska has been growing for more than a decade, in the last five years it has exploded, leaving land managers and biologists scrambling to figure out how to protect the bears and the sightseers.