The New Mexico Game Commission is expected to vote on a proposal that would ease limits on hunting and trapping bears and cougars around the state.
Police in the Omaha suburb of La Vista say a report of a mountain lion in a residential area appears to be credible, and they are investigating.
Cougars spotted in the Eastern U.S. are believed to be migrating western mountain lions, Florida panthers or captive animals that were released.
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish officers have killed a cougar in a Raton neighborhood after it reportedly attacked a puppy on a woman's front porch.
A cougar killed a dairy cow in Whatcom County in a rare instance of a cougar attack on livestock.
A bill that would allow the unlicensed hunting of cougars and other mountain cats in New Mexico cleared a hurdle in the state Legislature.
Officials say a deer carcass found near the entrance to Fort Stevens State Park was confirmed to be a cougar kill.
As hunting rights and methods are being taken away from sportsmen in mountain lion country, problem cougars are becoming a common occurrence.
Oregon wildlife officials have removed a cougar trap from a Eugene park even though trail cameras have shown a third cougar in the area. Two other cougars were earlier trapped and killed after recent livestock kills.