The battle of the chonk is back, and Alaska’s Fat Bear Week is officially in full swing. Hundreds of thousands of fish have returned to the salmon runs of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

Scientists are studying the expansion of black bears throughout Ohio. For the first time in state history, they put a GPS collar on a female black bear in Ashtabula County, according to the Ohio ...

Black bear sightings are increasing in Mississippi, particularly in spring. A young male bear has been sighted in North Mississippi, moving from DeSoto County eastward. A sow with cubs was sighted in ...

Black bear sightings are increasing in Ohio, and ODNR recently trapped, collared and released a female bear for research. The black bear population in Ohio is estimated between 50 and 100, with most ...