Alaskan bears will duke it out for the title of bulkiest bear around later this month when “Fat Bear Week” kicks off in the state’s Katmai National Park for the 11th year in a row. The National Park ...

It’s the battle of the bears in Alaska. The fattest and floofiest bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park are competing as part of the popular Fat Bear Week, an annual head-to-head competition aimed at ...

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 ...

ALASKA (WNDU) - Winter is coming, so you know what that means… Fat Bear Week is back! Fat Bear Week is where people vote on the fattest Alaskan brown bears in Katmai National Park who are bulking up ...

This image provided by the National Park Service shows cub 128 at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska on Sept. 13, 2025. (C. Loberg/National Park Service via AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — ...

Fat Bear Week marks the beginning of fall and the launch of voting brackets to crown the plumpest ursine ahead of hibernation. The annual competition, held by the National Park Service (NPS), begins ...

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 ...