Fat Bear Week, hosted annually by the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, celebrates the peninsula’s brown bears as ...

Chunk, the winner of Fat Bear Week” James Guiry Connector Contributor The annual Fat Bear Week has come and gone, and your champion is: Bear #32, or Chunk. While this week may sound mean to the bears, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New champ Chunk beat out a tough lineup of contenders, spoiling a potential three-peat by his longtime rival, Grazer.

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 ...

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 ...

As Alaska’s Fat Bear Week came to a close, the winner was a 1,200-pound bruiser who showed “adaptability” after a major injury. By Madison Malone Kircher After a weeklong battle to the finish, this ...

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 ...