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Tejon Ranch, the 270,000-acre property about 60 miles north of Los Angeles, will soon be open to the public for a fraction of its former price.

Federal judges in California said the Constitution does not protect the right to carry concealed outside the home, but teed up a potential Supreme Court fight over whether so-called "open carry" could be constitutional.

A 100-pound bear cub was sent back to the wild after being spotted going through trashcans in a Los Angeles County neighborhood.

Coyotes are suspected of entering the California home of a deceased man and eating his remains.

Neighbors believe they saw a mountain lion hopping a fence in Vista, California. Now, an 80-pound pit/lab mix is missing.

A Laguna Beach family says a brazen coyote came into their home and snatched the family's 8-year-old Chihuahua from a bedroom occupied by a baby girl and two other small dogs.

Extreme drought conditions have forced hungry bears to descend from the mountains into small California towns in search of food and water.

An elusive mountain lion took up a very public perch atop a 35-foot utility pole in the California desert.

Police are warning residents to keep a close eye on pets after a mountain lion snatched a pet poodle from the backyard of a Burbank hillside home.

California’s second phase of implementing non-lead for hunting went into effect July 1. Non-lead shots will be required for shotguns...

After observing the animal for about 30 minutes, a game warden used a bean bag gun to try to haze the lion out of the residential area and back into nearby open space. But the big cat did not move when struck.

California's Fish and Game Commission has voted to ban bobcat trapping throughout the state, a move praised by animal activists who argue trapping is cruel.

Officials set up remote trail cameras after receiving reports earlier this year of a large, dark-colored canid, an animal from the family that includes wolves, foxes, coyotes, jackals and dogs.

San Jose council members have made permanent a measure that allows the shooting of wild pigs that have become a nuisance by ripping up lawns and golf course fairways.

California wildlife officials confirmed that a mountain lion they shot and killed is the same one that attacked a 6-year-old boy on a hiking trail.

A mountain lion attack on a French bulldog has prompted a Southern California couple to obtain a permit to hunt the big cat down.

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.

Animal rights activists are using increasingly aggressive strategies to keep California and Nevada game wardens from trapping bears that break into Lake Tahoe homes.