After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who ...

The annual Fat Bear Week featuring gluttonous brown bears at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is back.

Bears and humans wait all year for the yearly Katmai Conservancy contest called “Fat Bear Week.” The bears prepare by eating in preparation for winter hibernation. The ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Fat Bear Week kicks off with the first matchups on Tuesday, Sept. 23. The brown bears in this competition live in Katmai National Park. They put on pounds all summer in ...

Fat Bear Week is back, with reigning champ Grazer and her cub in the mix. Anchorage’s Wildbirch Hotel joins the fun with ...

As we delve deeper into Fat Bear Week, we spoke with one of the creators of the event about why it's important for people to ...

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 ...

The bears are extremely fat this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how people react to how fat they are,” says the ...

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 ...

Fat Bear Week is back! The famed March Madness-style bracket competition that pits some of Katmai National Park and Preserve's bulkiest and most beloved brown bears against each other in the arena of ...