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 ...

Brown bears at Katmai National Park in Alaska compete in the annual Fat Bear Week contest after a summer of eating salmon. The public votes online in a single-elimination tournament for the bear they ...

Fat Bear Week, when people get to pick their favorite Alaskan brown bear bulking up for hibernation, is coming early this year. The annual online competition that normally starts in early October will ...

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 popular online voting ...

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 ...

A woman in Alaska was mauled by a bear this week near her driveway after she left her home for an early morning jog, state officials confirmed to Fox News Digital. Ariean Fabrizio Colton, 36, a mother ...

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 story, A Family Hunt for Alaska Brownies, originally ran 75 years ago, in the July 1947 issue. While it is a classic example of an OL family hunting adventure, it also shows how hunting ethics ...

Two hikers were hospitalized after fighting off a brown bear on an Alaskan trail, officials said Wednesday. The two people, who were not named by authorities, were about a quarter-mile up the Exit ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Brookfield Zoo Chicago has announced the death of a brown bear. Axhi was a 31-year-old rescued bear that came to the zoo in 1995. His health had been declining, and the zoo decided it ...

A roman mosaic shows a fighting North African Atlas bear. Jerzystrzelecki via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Nearly a decade ago, archaeologists found the broken skull of a bear among the ruins ...