A highlight is witnessing them “go beast mode on the millions of sockeye salmon that run from Bristol Bay down the Brooks River,” as my colleague Natalie B. Compton put it. Fat Bear Week has ...

Yikes, talk about an un-tasty tasting. The idea of opening a can of salmon and enjoying a bite of luscious, flavorful pink or red salmon sounds so very enticing. Warning: It is not. Sadly, most ...

What is Fat Bear Week? Everything to know about the big, beefy event. He started this season with a ripped ear and a hangdog expression. But after a summer of gorging on salmon, he has ballooned ...

Voters from around the world will soon decide the winner of Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week ... brown bear after a summer of catching salmon and packing on pounds for hibernation.

The bears feast on salmon swimming upstream to spawn as preparation for their months of winter hibernation, during which they burn through the fat stores that give the contest its name.