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.

There's a new Fat Bear Week winner. Fat Bear 32 Chunk was crowned the 2025 champion of the annual park contest on Tuesday night, Sept. 30. Out of more than 160,000 votes, Bear 32 Chunk, a male ...

Voters rewarded the burly bear for his persistence — and his ability to adapt after suffering a broken jaw in a brawl last ...

The 2025 Fat Bear Week competition has named a champion, and as usual, they’re always deserving of the title. Each year in ...

As Alaska’s Fat Bear Week came to a close, the winner was a 1,200-pound bruiser who showed “adaptability” after a major ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 has crowned its winner! The competition uses online votes from fans around the world to determine which ...

As one of the largest bears that resides along Brooks River at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, 32 Chunk was ...

Now that the last-ditch votes have taken place (and failed) in the Senate, the hallways are clearing and lawmakers, staffers and journalists are headed home. The writing is on the wall: when Americans ...

Sitka's city planner noticed a parallel between the work the city does filling potholes and Katmai bears' weight-gain journey ...

Autumn is an active season for North Carolina black bears. And while we aren't home to 'Fat Bear Week,' we do have our fair ...