Bear

Police say the 175-to-200 pound bear was seen in the Bensalem area. That's about 18 miles northeast of Philadelphia, near the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

A mother and her adult daughter have been convicted of tampering with a bear trap at Lake Tahoe in an effort to thwart wildlife officials.

A young black bear is suspected of blowing out an electrical transformer after climbing a tree.

Maine's black bears have emerged from hibernation and are pawing through garbage cans, birdfeeders and pet dishes, igniting a debate between hunters and conservationists.

A homeowner let her three dogs out and soon heard one yelp. The other two dogs ran off, but she found the bear eating the third.

Researchers at New Mexico State University are working to better estimate how many black bears there are in New Mexico.

Wildlife officials in New Hampshire believe a bear is to blame for a series of recent car break-ins.

Workers used air horns to scare away a black bear who appeared at an oil sands work site but they were unable to prevent him from dragging away a female employee and killing her.

A man who killed a brown bear near a Sitka residential area has been charged with unlawful possession of game.

A black bear that wildlife officials relocated to a forest some 90 miles away last month has made its way back to a Panama City neighborhood.

A New Jersey veterinarian has removed an arrow from the face of a black bear.

First "Zwickery" was created to respond to changes in hunting laws that allowed bowhunters to shoot deer, elk and bear.

National Park Service rangers say bear sightings could increase this year in East Tennessee and southeast Kentucky.

81-year-old Mary Musselman was arrested in February after authorities say she repeatedly violated warnings not to feed the wild animals.

Ranchers in south-central Oregon have legally killed a nearly 500-pound black bear after one of their heifers was killed by a bear and the giant animal was found in the family's cattle herd.

The Montana Land Board approved a $345,000 purchase of 320 acres of threatened grizzly bear habitat to add to the Blackleaf Wildlife Management Area in Teton County.

Spring black bear hunting can be a blast, but a treestand isn’t the only way to do it.