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.