Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto the Kachemak Bay mud flats at low tide to fill a 5-gallon bucket with clams ...

Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key ...

ANCHORAGE - Sea otters that live from southwestern Cook Inlet to the tip of Alaska's Aleutian Chain will now get more federal protection and a biological investigation into why their population has ...

On Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, gray wolves are doing something unexpected: hunting sea otters. This surprising dietary ...

River otters have attacked a child, a woman, and at least two dogs this month, Alaska authorities said. A child was chased and bitten by a group of four otters on Sept. 1, the Alaska Department of ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sea otters used to frolic and feed in reefs near Cold Bay just off the western end of the Alaska Peninsula. No more. "That place used to be lousy with sea otters," said Douglas ...

The Petersburg Borough Assembly passed a resolution on Sept. 15 calling on state and federal authorities for help dealing with rising sea otter populations. Petersburg now joins Wrangell and Haines in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Trump administration today approved a deal trading away federal lands to pave the way for building a road through the center of Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.