New Mexico officials want to increase the number of Sandias bears that can be killed by hunters, but the plan is drawing fire from critics.
Two employees of an Alaska backcountry lodge startled an adult grizzly bear while running on a trail in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. The bear stepped out of thick brush and mauled one woman while the other ran for help.
Florida's wildlife management commission started selling permits for bear hunting for the first time in two decades, despite a legal challenge to the hunt.
The Minnesota Zoo's grizzly bear exhibit has reopened after one of the bears shattered a glass enclosure pane.
Game wardens had previously offered the man a permit to legally shoot bears after one damaged his property. But Foy says the man turned it down because he feared retribution by animal activists.
Maine's bear hunters are getting ready for their season after withstanding a pair of challenges to the way they hunt, but opponents say their methods are cruel and they might try again to stop them.
A whitewater raft guide on the Nolichucky River in Erwin has saved a dehydrated, underweight bear cub.
A grizzly bear exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo is temporarily closed after one of the bears picked up a basketball-sized rock and shattered a barrier.
A Mississippi taxidermist must pay $4,300 for hiding the skin of a threatened Louisiana black bear from investigators, and a man who helped take the bear to him must pay an equal amount.
State wildlife officials say the number of bears in Kentucky has grown and the population can withstand increased hunting.
A college party got a little wild when a black bear showed up. The black bear, weighing between 300 and 400 pounds, crashed the party near the campus of Lehigh University.
Wildlife officials say an adult black bear scratched its way into a tent and bit a man on his forearm at a campground on the eastern end of Ruedi Reservoir near Aspen.