Alaska  

One night in 1987, Jeff and Kim Kann were watching television and came across this riveting show about the "river of bears" at Alaska's McNeil River.
Chum salmon on a spawning run get held up at a gushing falls. Grizzly bears emerge from the surrounding brush from miles around to f...

Everyone gets lucky at some point in his life.
You might find a $10 bill while walking down the street.
Or maybe the big buck everyone's been hunting in your area just happens to show up in front of your rifle on opening day.
There's no explanation for why these things happen.
They just do.
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The summer after his freshman year in high school, Elizabethtown Area High School senior Harrison Rhodes discovered a passion that changed his life.
After listening to environmental speaker David Radcliff at a church conference, Rhodes' interest in global environmental science was sparked.
Since the...

Ron Kneisley, of Willow Street, was tough to interview, even though he bagged a near-record Alaskan black bear in June.
Not only was his bear a near-record, but also it was his first black bear, his first out-of-state big-game trip and it involved his first flight on a floatplane.
Even with all that...

In a remote and tiny community in Alaska reside some Yupik Eskimo schoolchildren who are newly enamored of a certain Pennsylvania Dutch confection: the whoopie pie.
The third-grade students at Ignatius Beans School in Mountain Village, Alaska, have been corresponding since October with third-graders...

Choking back tears as he addressed a full pavilion, author Andrew Farmer introduced his family and his book, "Finding the Way."
Farmer said focus of the book is former Landisville resident John Long. Long was Farmer's mother's first husband. Farmer spoke at Sunday's Memorial D...