Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his ...

There's a new Fat Bear Week winner. Fat Bear 32 Chunk was crowned the 2025 champion of the annual park contest on Tuesday ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle ...

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

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 ...

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 returning this month for its 11th year. The competition is fierce and, above all, incredibly chunky. The National Park Service’s competition for the bear with “peak spherical status” ...

America’s most beloved bear-based competition is just weeks away. Fat Bear Week, an online vote conducted via a single-elimination bracket, will take place from Sept. 23 to 30, the National Park ...

It's the chunkiest competition of the year. Fat Bear Week is back! From September 23-30, fans will vote for the ultimate heavyweight champ, with Fat Bear Junior kicking things off September 18. Our ...