Fat Bear Week Is Here: How the Contest Works and How to Vote for This Year’s Chunkiest Champion

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week Is Back and the Competition Is Bigger Than Ever—Here’s How to Vote for Your Favorites

Katmai National Park’s famous brown bears face off in an online bracket through Sept. 30.Arthur Morris/Getty Images Brown bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska.It’s the battle of the bears in Alaska.The fattest and floofiest bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park are competing as part of the popular Fat Bear Week, an annual head-to-head competition aimed at crowning a champion brown bear. And the 2025 competition is heavier than ever before. "Fa…

Fat Bear Week kicks off in Alaska – here's how you can vote

Battle of the bears - members of the public are invited to choose the fattest bear in Katmai National Park

OF COURSE: CNN’s Brian Stelter GUSHES over Jimmy Kimmel’s Return

Jimmy Kimmel’s much heralded return to the airwaves finally happened. As expected, there has been significant gushing over Kimmel’s monologue. Among those gleefully squeeing, CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter. Watch Stelter’s immediate reaction to the monologue, as aired on Laura Coates Live on Wednesday, January 24th, 2025: CNN's Brian Stelter gushes over Kimmel return monologue: BRIAN STELTER: No, no, this is just beginning. Because even t…

Fat Bear Week is here: How the contest works and how to vote for this year’s chunkiest champion

Fat Bear Jr. voters can cast ballots from Friday in the popular contest that has been going since 2014.

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