As summer winds down in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, a peculiar yet beloved tradition begins: Fat Bear Week. This friendly ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 kicks off on Sept. 23, 2025 and runs for one week. Find out what you need to know about brackets, voting, ...

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

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

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

Fat Bear Week began as a one-day tournament in 2014, when park rangers hosted Fat Bear Tuesday on Katmai National Park’s ...

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

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this ...

Fat Bear Week, a March Madness-style contest that pits a dozen Alaskan brown bears against one another in single-elimination ...

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