The annual contest in Alaska’s Katmai National Park honors chunky bears piling on the pounds for winter hibernation.

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

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

The last 2025 Fat Bear Week contender is 910. She's described as a rectangle and a cruise ship because of how large she is.

The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in ...

The annual Fat Bear Week competition is here! See some of the chunkiest contenders and cast your vote!

These Alaskan brown bears are at their peak plumpness, but which contestant will win the top prize of Fat Bear 2025?

Fat Bear Week is fun to watch, but packing on pounds is serious business for the bears at Katmai National Park. How to vote ...

While Alaska's larger brown bears are attracting national attention, there have been some impressive black bears to come out ...

Welcome back for Day 3 of Fat Bear Week! Did 909 wave her magic paw over the votes? They swam towards her yesterday ten times ...

Welcome back to Fat Bear Week, Day 2! We’re off to a roaring start: the tiny but ginormous, glorious and notorious ...

The annual Fat Bear Week is underway in Alaska as people vote on which brown bear has become the fattest in preparation of ...