Fat Bear Week in Alaska has amassed a huge following. Last year, over a million people across 100 countries voted for their favorite Fat Bear, according to the National Park Service.

Alaska’s prohibition on waking sleeping bears demonstrates how laws must sometimes protect people from their own poor ...

Katmai National Park’s famous brown bears face off in an online bracket through Sept. 30. It’s the battle of the bears in Alaska. The fattest and floofiest bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park are ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

The Unuk River region is and was an off-the-main-trail place. The Unuk River, Joonáx̱ in Tlingit, runs from glaciers in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...

Black bears enjoy time in trees, but none more so than a black bear recently caught on video, which took relaxation to the next level.

Popular hiking trails in British Columbia, Canada are closed after 2 hikers were injured in a grizzly bear attack, one of them critically.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 ...