State wildlife managers said that they are drastically reducing the number of hunting permits for an Interior Alaska bison herd after discovering that dozens of the animals died in a pond this spring.

A Montana native who dreamed of Alaska since childhood has spent his career working to restore one of the state's lost ...

Bison calving season is underway at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Girdwood. Staff say this year’s baby wood ...

Herds of wood bison once roamed northern Canada and much of Alaska. The bison — scientific name Bison bison athabascae — are a northern subspecies of the American bison that once lived in great ...

Editor’s note: Mark Lindberg is chronicling the return of wood bison for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This is one of an occasional series documenting ...

Hunting goal delayed Based on expectations from 20 percent annual bison herd growth rates seen in Canada, there had initially been hopes in Alaska that the herd would grow fast enough to allow some ...

Much like cattle, 44 wood bison were separated, sorted, run through chutes and onto a truck Monday morning. They’ll make a roughly 40-hour drive from Alberta’s Elk Island National Park east of ...