Authorities have staged safety drills, loosened hunting restrictions, even deployed the military. The bears are undeterred.

Bear #89 got his very appropriate nickname from his habit of riding his mother’s back through the Brooks River as a cub. That mama bear is Katmai legend and former Fat Bear Week ...

A bear called Winnie, brought to Wiltshire by a Canadian soldier in 1914, inspired A.A Milne.

After a week of fierce competition, Bear 910 and Backpack have emerged as finalists for the Fat Bear Week title of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve ...

As of Sept. 28, 2026, bear incidents in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks have increased 125% since 2020.

Call them fat. Call them corpulent. Call them rotund, portly, Rubenesque or chunky. Whatever adjective you like, the bears are back in town and as big as ever. In what has become a marquee annual ...

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This bear has a sweet tooth!