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.

FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s decades-long project to restore North America’s largest land mammal to Interior and Western Alaska will begin a new phase this summer with an expansion into a second region. Next ...

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 ...

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 ...