Every summer, many rivers across Alaska appear as if they have caught fire. The water turns a deep, almost impossible red as ...

A sometimes-fan's misremembered baseball trauma connects to new heartbreak as Seattle falls short again in 2025.

Hidden along Alaska’s trails and shorelines, these remote smokehouses turn wild salmon into smoky treasures worth the trek.

A run of sockeye salmon. A record number of sockeye have returned to Skagit Bay and the Skagit river on their annual spawning migration, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

A record number of sockeye have returned to Skagit Bay and the Skagit river on their annual spawning migration, according to ...

ROCKY REST — On Saturday, October 4th, Drew Backfish was celebrating his 13th birthday by fishing with his dad, Michael, on the North Fork of the Yuba River. Shortly after arriving at Rocky Rest ...

Every June, Joe Echo-Hawk makes the long trek to Bristol Bay, Alaska to catch thousands of pounds of sockeye salmon. The area around the Kvichak River has hosted generations of commercial fishermen.

“The bears are extremely fat this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how people react to how fat they are,” says the former ranger who helped invent the popular contest. The Fat Bear Week ...

Patty Salkeld of Portland has been voting for years in Explore.org’s spirited Fat Bear Week competition. Starting Tuesday, she will once again join millions of viewers, glued to a live webcam at ...