A human skull found in a remote Alaskan river valley in 1997 has been genetically linked to a New York man who was likely killed by a bear 20 years earlier, Alaska State Troopers say. The remains were ...

Alaskan investigators used genetic testing and genealogy to connect a skull found in 1997 to a Clay, N.Y., man who had been missing for decades. Officials believe the man was likely mauled by a bear.

Gary Frank Sotherden went missing in 1976 while on a hunting trip near the Porcupine River in northeastern Alaska Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Snow-covered hills in the Porcupine River Tundra in the Yukon Territories, Canada. In July 1997, a hunter contacted troopers in Fairbanks, Alaska, and reported finding a human skull along the ...

The Alaska State Troopers have already identified the remains found in 1997 near the Alaska and Canada border, where a hunter found a skull near the Porcupine River. This answers the nearly ...

Sep. 25—A 28-year-old Palmer woman died Tuesday after the Cessna 206 she was flying crashed on the Porcupine River, authorities say. Alaska State Troopers on Wednesday identified the pilot as Hannah ...

BARROW, Alaska -- Time is running out for the Porcupine caribou herd, according to the conservation officer for the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. Darius Kassi said the caribou are late again this year ...