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A bear surprised shoppers at a southern Arizona grocery store when it walked through the front door and ran around inside for a few minutes before exiting the building. Over the weekend, the bear was ...

Bear 32 Chunk was crowned the 2025 champion of Fat Bear Week. Chunk defeated runner-up Bear 856 with over 96,000 votes. The annual contest celebrates the survival of brown bears at Katmai National ...

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 ...

ORO VALLEY, AZ (AZFamily) — A bear-y unusual encounter was caught on camera in an Oro Valley grocery store on Monday. In the video, you can see a bear cub dash through the aisle of a Fry’s Grocery ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A South Carolina man drove a Kia Telluride up Black Bear Road on Wednesday and got stuck, leading to a closure of Black Bear Pass. The San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office said that ...

The Yankees and the Red Sox. Celtic and Rangers. Real Madrid and Barcelona. In a competition bear-ly more ferocious, 12 chunky brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve have been ...

That breeze in the air doesn’t just mean it’s time to start looking for your coats. The end of September also means the start of one of the internet’s best annual traditions: Fat Bear Week. “At Brooks ...

Brown bears at Katmai National Park in Alaska compete in the annual Fat Bear Week contest after a summer of eating salmon. The public votes online in a single-elimination tournament for the bear they ...

Chunk, 32, is the chubby champion of Fat Bear Week 2025. His broken jaw didn't stop him from feasting on sockeye salmon and gaining hundreds of pounds this summer. A bear weighing in at over 1,200 ...

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 ...