Bear Creek

A cruise ship arrived in Seward, Alaska, with a dead endangered fin whale attached to its bow. NOAA Fisheries is investigating the apparent vessel strike and performing a necropsy to determine the cause of death.

A mushroom foraging trip near Skilak Lake turned into a dangerous bear encounter when a black bear attacked a dog and forced its owner to defend herself and the animals. The injured dog survived and is expected to make a full recovery.

Two hikers were injured after fighting off a brown bear about a quarter-mile up the Exit Glacier trail near Seward. The National Park Service closed the trail while troopers and biologists assess the area.

Dirt on Exit Glacier makes it look very different then the information posters.

Heavy rains and melting glaciers are making landslides in the area more common, says a geologist.

Chugach Electric acknowledges the high frequency of winter power outages in Cooper Landing and Moose Pass, attributing them to heavy snowfall and considering solutions like local maintenance crews.

As the world’s glaciers retreat, so does the outlook for the Alaska tourism sector. But the pace of that retreat is still in human hands.

The female seal pup — estimated to be around six months old — was seen swimming “erratically” near the shore in Sitka last month, according to a press release from the center. Worried Sitka residents then reported the pup to the center’s 24-hour stranding hotline.

The creek slide is the latest environmental incident to strike the Kenai Peninsula this week: a massive landslide in Seward on May 7 continues to block Lowell Point Road, a wildfire broke out near Sportsman’s Landing on May 8 and a separate wildfire broke out on May 10 near Wildman’s.

The landslide, estimated to be 300 feet wide, has completely cut off the community of Lowell Point. Lowell Point Road is the only land access between Lowell Point and the City of Seward. As a result the City of Seward cannot access critical wastewater facilities.

I was looking forward to ice skating this winter. I had bought a pair of Nordic blades. This morning, I woke up to over a foot of snow. It is an early storm for Seward, which was blanketed in white this morning.

The Seward facility began housing five seals found in the Cook Inlet area and another that was rescued in Juneau.

A snowmachiner was killed Monday afternoon in an avalanche on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska State Troopers reported late Monday night.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for Kenai Lake and the Kenai River near Cooper Landing.

An Anchorage couple and a Virginia woman died in the crash above Tern Lake. Another woman survived.

A species rarely seen in the Seward area.

Jeffrey Cheng, 33, died in the slide. One of his friends managed to hold on to a tree as waves of avalanche debris washed over his head. The third member of their group wasn’t caught.

A rare sighting near the confluence of the Russian River.

Coyotes have killed at least three dogs in Seward, and police are trying to trap the predators before they get more.

Sport fishermen are struggling to reel in the rainbow trout and Dolly Varden that usually are so abundant in fall.