...mother bear and her cubs by playing dead.The man was walking a friend's dog in the area between Swampy Acres and Lake Catherine on Tuesday afternoon when he stumbled upon a sow and two cubs 20 feet ahead of him, The Kodiak Daily Mirror reported...

...weekend. A Coast Guard helicopter crew airlifted Charles Hutchins, of Houston, Alaska, from a construction site near Lake Catherine on Sunday afternoon. Hutchins was watching for bears at the site when he apparently startled one of the animals in...