ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The short, heartless version of the story was simply: "The Doofus Dies." At least, that's how some Alaskans saw it, says Nick Jans, the Juneau-based author of a new book, "The ...

If the celebrity grizzly bear conservationist Timothy Treadwell sought to raise public awareness about the uneasy coexistence between man and beast in the Alaskan outback, and the wisdom of separating ...

Timothy Treadwell became world-famous overnight — but for a tragic reason. In 2003, he and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard set out for Katmai National Park in Alaska. What was meant to be another close ...

Timothy Treadwell wasn’t doing so well in the human world. A college dropout with his hoped-for acting career going nowhere, he began drinking large quantities of alcohol. But realizing where that ...

I was alarmed when I saw the story on Timothy Treadwell (“Man, Martyr, Myth,” by Craig Medred, Dec. 14). As humans, we expect the rules of society to be bent to accommodate us, and most often society ...