The U.S. government is warning travelers about the risk of brown bear attacks in Japan. U.S. Embassy warns travelers of increased bear attacks in Northern Japan, especially Hokkaido and Akita. “Be ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) TJ Long scored 40 points and Vermont Catamounts defeated Brown Bears 89-84 in double overtime on Sunday. Long added 13 rebounds and three steals for the Catamounts (3-0). TJ ...

BOTTOM LINE: Brown hosts Vermont. Brown went 14-13 overall last season while going 8-6 at home. The Bears averaged 14.7 assists per game on 26.8 made field goals last season. Vermont went 14-4 in ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Alaska's Katmai National Park announced a brown bear dubbed 32 Chunk has claimed his first-ever Fat Bear Week championship title. The park said the bounteous bear bested a field of ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 has reached its final round in Alaska, with Bear 32 'Chunk' facing off against Bear 856 in a public vote on Tuesday. The duo beat strong competition, including 2023 and 2024 winner ...

North Carolina is home to black bears, not the brown bears celebrated in Alaska's "Fat Bear Week." Black bears are most commonly found in the mountain and coastal regions of the state. Bears enter a ...

The terrifying close encounter was caught on video by a security camera A man walking to his car in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, had a scary run-in with a brown bear Security footage shows the ...

Two people were hurt Wednesday after they encountered a brown bear on a trail in the Exit Glacier area near Seward, Alaska State Troopers said. The attack occurred at around 6:40 p.m. about a ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 ...