Brent Hudson spent 37 years guiding big game hunts in Alaska. At Saturday’s Living in Bear County Safety Course, he taught ...

He had gone to the wooded area near a federal cleanup site in Kodiak, Alaska, part of his job as an engineer, without his standard large caliber handgun and large-size can of bear spray.

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Two Kodiak bear cubs, a unique subspecies of the brown bear, were found in a rural area of the Florida Panhandle thousands of miles away from their native home, authorities said.

KG: “The Kodiak Bear Wars” occurred on Kodiak Island in the 1960s. Ranchers wanted to eradicate bears and make Kodiak a ranching community so an aerial gunning program was established to kill ...