While Alaska is known for its majestic mountain fjords, beautiful Northern Lights, and breathtaking historic trails, its coastal city, Kodiak, has earned a reputation of its own as the "brown bear ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...