Fat Bear Week is officially underway. The 10th annual contest will determine 2024’s best hefty hibernator currently chowing down on salmon in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. From October 2-8 ...

Costco reported that it has dropped prices on some of its Kirkland brand items during its fourth quarter earnings call. Gary Millerchip, Costco chief financial officer, said in last Thursday's ...

Chunk, a contender in this year’s Fat Bear Week celebration at Katmai National Park and Preserve. (From National Park Service) Over the last several months, brown bears have been putting on ...

The start of the annual Fat Bear Week contest in the US was delayed this week after one of the potential contestants was killed by a rival. Both bears were in contention for the 10th anniversary ...

It was only a matter of time before Fat Bear Week turned violent. The annual online tournament pitting bears who lift heavy forks against their girthy brothers and sisters had a delayed start this ...

How did Mount Everest come to be the world’s tallest mountain, towering more than 200 metres above the next two highest peaks? Geologists suggest the mountain owes part of its extra height to ...

Fat Bear Week is off to a violent start this year. The bracket and all the chunky contestants were scheduled to be revealed on Monday morning, but the reveal was pushed back by a day after one ...

He couldn’t bear the competition. Fat Bear Week has returned, but the grisly nature of bears has brought the “celebration of success and survival” to a pause. The brackets for the ...

Baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng may be the internet’s animal sensation du jour, but it’s time to celebrate some rotund wildlife with proven staying power: the fat bears of Alaska’s Katmai National ...

Katmai National Park announced it would postpone its announcement of Fat Bear Week contestants, after one of the park's beloved bears was killed in an altercation with another bear. The shocking ...

A beloved California black bear was tragically put down after taking a swipe at a camper recording him approach from atop a tree stump. On the night of August 22, 2024, a well-known black bear ...

When asked where the pellet gun was, the man said he threw it away. He is being charged with unlawfully killing a black bear accompanied by one or more cubs, as well as unlawfully failing to comply ...