Fat Bear Week is an annual park competition that "celebrates the healthy appetites of brown bears" and "the nourishing ecosystem in which the bears thrive," according to NPS. The annual event ...

A fight between two brown bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve left one dead Monday, producing a gruesome scene on a popular live stream and postponing Fat Bear Week plans. Officials at the ...

NEW YORK (WPIX) – Who is the chunkiest brown bear of them all? That’s what the National Park Service is trying to determine during its annual Fat Bear Week competition. Fans can cast their ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Who is the chunkiest brown bear of them all? That’s what the National Park Service is trying to determine during its Fat Bear Week competition. Fans can cast their votes for ...

24. The final Fat Bear Week bracket will be revealed on Sept. 30. Alaska's brown bears are some of the largest bears in the world, with adult males averaging 700 to 900 pounds in mid-summer ...

“Higuma” brown bears and “tsukinowaguma” Asiatic black bears were included on the designated controlled birds and animals list. Prefectural governments will be asked to develop systems to ...

Voting starts 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 fattened up to survive ...

has been delayed after a fatal fight broke out between two bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Each year, Katmai National Park in southern Alaska celebrates its brown bears by ...

Fat Bear Week is back, and this year's contestants are a giant, fuzzy dream for the competition's 10th anniversary. The initial Monday announcement was postponed until Tuesday following a gruesome ...

ALASKA, USA — An Alaska national park's yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber.