This year’s Fat Bear Week champion offers a lesson in persistence. Or he’s just a bear that ate a lot of salmon.

Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska offers a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, with active volcanoes, pristine lakes, backcountry hikes, and epic bear sightings.

Nights are spent in a modest four-cabin converted crabbing boat called Ursus. Skiffs ferry travelers ashore for twice-daily outings, where it’s common to see half a dozen or more brown bears dotting ...

The Kraken tough guy is still battling for a fourth line job the final week of training camp, but admittedly met his summer match with a massive grizzly bear he wanted no part of ...

Fat Bear Week in Alaska has amassed a huge following. Last year, over a million people across 100 countries voted for their favorite Fat Bear, according to the National Park Service.

Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first ...

I stood outside a hangar at the Anchorage airport, facing the morning sun, one week after finishing my first year at Tufts. If I had turned around and flown home at that moment, no one would have ...

Republicans and Democrats blame each other for the funding gap, and there is little sign either side is willing to compromise.

At 3.4 million acres, Katmai National Park is a vast wilderness on the Alaska Peninsula, stretching from the Bristol Bay lowlands to the volcanic center of the Aleutian Range and to the coast of the ...