JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown bears and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a bear biting the hand of a West Virginia houndsman. Philip Propst couldn’t see his dogs or the bear they’d ...

Separate bear attacks in Japan killed one and injured four on Friday, officials said, days after the government vowed to toughen measures because of a record year of deadly assaults by the animals.

LEGITIMATELY FRIGHTENED. YEAH, THEY SURE ARE. AND IT’S NOT CLEAR TONIGHT WHETHER THIS IS THE WORK OF ONE BEAR OR POSSIBLY A FEW. BUT WHAT IS CLEAR IS THAT THERE IS A DANGER LURKING IN THE WOODS HERE.

Most people who won permits to participate in the first Florida black bear hunt since 2015 came away empty-handed. Jeff Nemeth wasn’t one of them — he and his son killed a 503-pound bear on a private ...

CANTON — The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection euthanized a mother bear and tranquilized her cubs this week after the adult animal broke into several local homes, but the Humane ...

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. — A Lake County man was arrested for illegally shooting and killing a black bear on his neighbor’s property, weeks after he told wildlife officers he killed the bear in self-defense.

Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown bears and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the southwest ...