The reinstated program allows officials to shoot bears regardless of age, with no limit on how many can be killed, through ...

Nearly killed by a brown bear during a summer hike, Anchorage resident Victoria Lytle reunited with the firefighters, medics and 911 dispatcher who trekked miles into the Chugach Mountains to rescue h ...

Environmental groups sued Alaska’s wildlife authorities on Monday, aiming to stop game wardens from shooting an unlimited number of bears from helicopters across a wide area inhabited by protected ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Mike Fitz, the creator of Fat Bear Week. Every year, Katmai ...

How else would Americans make such an important decision? We'll have a contest, of course, and whoever survives the brackets wins! Call it September Madness. Explore.org's winner of Fat Bear Week--now ...

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 ...

In an upset for the ages, Fat Bear Week’s 2025 champion is 32 Chunk, who denied a potential “three-peat” by his longtime rival, 128 Grazer. Fat Bear Week celebrates the triumphs and tribulations of ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Alaska's Katmai National Park announced a brown bear dubbed 32 Chunk has claimed his first-ever Fat Bear Week championship title. The park said the bounteous bear bested a field 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 ...

Despite a broken jaw, 32 Chunk has eaten his way to the top of the Fat Bear Week 2025 bracket. Chunk was finally named the winner of Fat Bear Week after being awarded as the runner-up for the past two ...

The Yankees and the Red Sox. Celtic and Rangers. Real Madrid and Barcelona. In a competition bear-ly more ferocious, 12 chunky brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve have been ...

Bear 32, nicknamed Chunk, was crowned the 2025 Fat Bear Week champion. T Carmack, Katmai National Park and Preserve via Flickr under Public Domain A bear weighing more than 1,000 pounds, nicknamed ...