Some predator hunts are just now heating up with the spring green up.

Sportsman’s groups have been battling anti-hunters like, Mainers For Fair Bear Hunting (MFFBH), over the ethics of bear hunting.

Bear encounters are up and New Jersey officials are hoping expanded hunting areas could help reduce those numbers.

New Hampshire has announced a new system for issuing the permits that regulate bear hunting guides.

Hunters killed 267 bears during New Jersey's annual black bear hunt this year, an increase of 16 from last year.

A hunter has shot and killed a nearly 700-pound bear on the first day of New Jersey's bear hunt.

A new California law banning the use of dogs in bear hunting appears to have had a dramatic effect, with fewer bears killed by hunters in 2013 than in any other year over the past two decades.

More than 10,000 hunters bought special tags to hunt bears during Vermont's first two-part bear season in 2013.

The six-day hunt will take place in four designated areas in parts of Sussex, Warren, Morris, Passaic Bergen, Somerset and Hunterdon counties.

Kenai National Wildlife refuge officials have ordered an emergency closure of sport hunting of brown bears, saying that more than 10 percent of the bears on the Peninsula have already died this season.