The 26-year-old man attacked by a brown bear while hiking on Mount Rausu in Japan on Aug. 14 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also ...

Rano’s escape from the zoo is emblematic of what is possible when trained hands, structured care, and institutional transparency align. But her story also reveals the extent of the suffering that ...

This story, A Family Hunt for Alaska Brownies, originally ran 75 years ago, in the July 1947 issue. While it is a classic example of an OL family hunting adventure, it also shows how hunting ethics ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Alaska's Katmai National Park announced a brown bear dubbed 32 Chunk has claimed his first-ever Fat Bear Week championship title. The park said the bounteous bear bested a field of ...

Coe-Brown's Ben Larson (16), Broden Cox (8) and Gus Glaser (12) run together on their home course at the Black Bear Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. Host Coe-Brown won the boys' team title at ...

Two people drove themselves to a nearby emergency room after being attacked by a brown bear while hiking along the two-mile Exit Glacier Trail in Seward, Alaska. According to a news release from ...

Two people were hurt Wednesday after they encountered a brown bear on a trail in the Exit Glacier area near Seward, Alaska State Troopers said. The attack occurred at around 6:40 p.m. about a ...

Americans exhausted by the firehose of news in 2025 were being offered a brief respite Wednesday, as Fat Bear Week got under way in Alaska. The annual tongue-in-cheek contest pits bears against each ...