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. The ...

A week in Chinitna Bay offers intimate encounters with Alaska’s brown bears, from massive males to newborn cubs spotted at dawn.

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” ...

ALASKA (WNDU) - Winter is coming, so you know what that means… Fat Bear Week is back! Fat Bear Week is where people vote on the fattest Alaskan brown bears in Katmai National Park who are bulking up ...