Alaska wildlife encounters don't get any cuter!

Sea otter handicrafts made by Anthony Charles on display at the Arts in the Cove festival on Prince of Wales Island on Aug. 8, 2025. For about a decade, Scott Jackson had a system. He was the owner of ...

The Tlingit people of Alaska have a chilling legend about shape-shifting otters called Kushtaka that trap souls and prevent ...

A sea otter floats on its back. Communities in Southeast Alaska are ramping up calls on the federal government to better manage the region’s booming sea otter population and its impacts on key ...

World Otter Day is May 25th, and that’s cause to celebrate! Besides their absolute cuteness, these curious critters are also ...

Scientists show that wolves that are eating sea otters in Alaska have much higher concentrations of mercury than those eating other prey such as deer and moose. In late 2020, a female coastal wolf ...

A suite of specimens featured in the museum’s upcoming “From These Lands” exhibition illustrate the intertwined nature of sea ...

President Trump posted to Truth Social Saturday evening, claiming that the Democrats released an "autopsy" into the 2024 Presidential campaign. After White House shooting, Smith vows bipartisan push ...

Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

(AP) An Alaska state senator is proposing a bounty on sea otters, the cute little marine mammals often seen by tourists swimming on their backs between cruise ships, sometimes munching on a fresh crab ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A lawsuit filed on Tuesday accuses the Bush administration of shirking its duty to protect threatened Alaska sea otters, eschewing environmental safeguards for ...