The Alaska Department of Public Safety is shopping for some distinctly Northern items of clothing: a collection of fur hats. The intent to buy the hats, expressed in a state public notice seeking ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Denver Fur Ban is a succinct title for a ballot measure. But opponents of the November initiative say its effects will be anything but simple, and they ...

In The New York Times in 1917, a year in which it was forecast that “the civilized world of women will wear more fur than ever before,” a reporter asked a pelt importer what his furs were made of.

Fairbanks-based Alaska state troopers visiting the Interior village of Allakaket in December 2023 pose for a photo while wearing fur hats. (Photo provided by the Alaska State Troopers) The Alaska ...