The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014 as a ...

Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous years. The ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Let the chunk-off ...

Bear enthusiasts, rejoice. The bear cam livestream officially returns today for the 2026 season. The cameras along the Brooks River and at Brook Falls in Alaska’s Katmai National Park put the park’s ...

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Active volcanoes, pristine lakes, and epic wildlife sightings await at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, voted the ...

This image provided by the National Park Service shows bear 32 at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, on July 14, 2025. (C Loberg/National Park Service via AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — ...

Let the chunk-off begin. Voting started Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears ...