Credit: Katmai National Park and Preserve/Explore.org/Cover Images Backpack bringing a fish to shore. A male brown bear ...

After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s ...

16 bears entered, but only two remain for the chunky championship.

From blooming spices in hot fat to saving cloudy pasta water, these 35 kitchen tricks borrow clever ideas from around the ...

The big boys battle and two sisters go head-to-head in Round 2 of Fat Bear Week voting. Ace fisherbear #164 (Bucky Dent) ...

Just bear with us on this one. This one’s for the big boys! The 2026 edition of Fat Bear Week officially kicked off on Sept.

Day 2 of Fat Bear Week shines a light on the biggest (literally) stars of Katmai National Park and Preserve and the also the next generation. Two sets of Brooks River behemoths duke it out, including ...

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 ...

After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.

Shifting a few unwanted pounds in your twenties seemed as simple as ditching dessert. But try the same trick at 45 and you'll ...

Plus, because it leans on foods grown and caught close to home, rather than shipped in from afar, this way of eating tends to do more to support local food production. Thus potentially making it ...

Here are the main changes that will affect your child’s school dinners. Under the new guidelines, schools must include: starchy food cooked in fat or oil no more than two days each week (applies ...