A bright spot in the news right now is the return of Explore's Fat Bear Week, where nature lovers get to watch the chubby ...

Next week kicks off Fat Bear Week at Alaska's Katmai National Park. We put Shelby and Joe's bear knowledge to the test. RAWR!

Fat Bear Week "celebrates the healthy appetites of brown bears" and "the nourishing ecosystem in which the bears thrive," as ...

Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Junior competition lets fans vote for playful cubs and young brown bears, with winners advancing to the main Fat Bear contest.

The famous bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enjoying an abundance of salmon, and even some playtime, as they pack ...

Two new parks fortifying the city’s coastline survived a bureaucratic gantlet that reveals why progress so often feels stuck. critic’s Notebook Two new parks fortifying the city’s coastline survived a ...

Seattle Kraken's mascot Buoy is a troll, but it was the victim of some real-life wildlife shenanigans during a recent video shoot in Alaska when it and the film crew got a little too close to wild ...

Fat Bear Week, the National Park Service’s official celebration of the fattest bears around, is getting its own unofficial board game. Tabletop publisher Osprey Games announced the upcoming release ...

Oct. 9 (UPI) --Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve announced a bear known as Grazer has been named the winner of Fat Bear Week for a second consecutive year. The park said on social media that ...

Chunk, a contender in this year's Fat Bear Week celebration at Katmai National Park and Preserve. (From National Park Service) Over the last several months, brown bears have been putting on pounds at ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — When it comes to packing on the pounds to survive an Alaska winter, this year’s undisputed champ is Grazer. Grazer, also known as Bear 128 to the fans of Fat Bear Week at Alaska’s ...

Voting in Katmai National Park's famed Fat Bear Week was underway Wednesday after a bear killed one of this year's competitors and delayed the bracket reveal by a day. Bear #469 attacked and killed ...