Voting is over in Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week contest, in which the public picks from 12 big ‘n’ bulky bears in an online brackets-style tournament. The 2023 winner is a ...

Make sure to hide your salmon and berries from the newly named winner of the ninth-annual Fat Bear Week competition. A "fierce queen" named "128 Grazer" has been crowned the fattest bear of all of ...

Voters from around the world will soon decide the winner of Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week. Voting ends Tuesday at 5 p.m. The annual competition pits brown bear vs. brown bear after a summer of ...

It’s bulking season in bear country. For months, the bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska have been packing on pounds, preparing for hibernation and unbeknownst to them, something else ...

A young Alaska brown bear in need of a family was adopted by her “aunt,” and now the little family is inseparable. They spend their time fishing, traveling and sleeping together along the Brooks River ...

One of the biggest competitions of the year is here. After days of uncertainty over the narrowly averted government shutdown, Fat Bear Week began as scheduled Wednesday at Katmai National Park and ...