Barring an outright catastrophe during 2025's final innings, it's likely the full year will come and go without experiencing ...

Get your popcorn (and maybe a plate of salmon sashimi) ready: Fat Bear Week, the annual competition to crown the rotundest brown bear at Alaska’s Katmai National Park, is back for its 2025 season.

Fat Bear Week is back! The famed March Madness-style bracket competition that pits some of Katmai National Park and Preserve's bulkiest and most beloved brown bears against each other in the arena of ...

Fat Bear 2025 named the winning bear after voting completed on Sept. 30. Bears Chunk and 856 made the final round Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

When Minus the Bear announced they were getting back together for the “Menos el Oso” 20th anniversary tour, fans who had long since tucked away their favorite Seattle indie-rock memories perked up.

Fat Bear Week, when people get to pick their favorite Alaskan brown bear bulking up for hibernation, is coming early this year. The annual online competition that normally starts in early October will ...

It’s the battle of the bears in Alaska. The fattest and floofiest bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park are competing as part of the popular Fat Bear Week, an annual head-to-head competition aimed at ...

Three times could be the charm for a burly brown bear who’s once again vying for Fat Bear Week champion. Bear 32 Chunk has lost the title to bear 128 Grazer two years in a row. However this year, he’s ...

September 23, 2025 marks two important holidays: Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Fat Bear Week. Every fall, rangers at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve keep track of the brown bears ...

A family in Encino, California, experienced an unusual visit from a family of bears in their yard this week. The bear family, ...