Brown bears commonly feast on salmon in the Brooks River in Katmai National Park, gobbling them as they leap upstream over Brooks Falls to spawn. The park, nearly 300 miles southwest of Anchorage and inaccessible by road, is home to the annual “Fat Bear Week” contest celebrating the bears as they fatten up for the winter.

Kraken forward John Hayden and the team's blue-haired troll mascot had a close call with a brown bear during a promotional video shoot in Alaska.

A progressive community organizer who campaigned on affordability is narrowly ahead of business-friendly Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell in the city’s primary, a result that has echoes of the recent Democratic mayoral race in New York.

Seattle political insiders say President Donald Trump and affordability concerns are behind the surprising primary election results in the mayoral race.