New Jersey Articles

An Idaho woman has been charged in connection with the illegal killing of a trophy bull elk, one of several cases that make up this installment of the game warden chronicles.

A black bear killed by Jeff Melillo in New Jersey during the 2019 hunting season has been certified as a bowhunting world record by the Pope and Young Club.

New Jersey lawmakers are trying to find solutions to a problem whitetail deer population estimated at 120-140 per square mile.

Surprisingly large black bears aren’t just turning up more frequently. They are being killed in places that didn’t even have a stable bear population two decades ago.

New Jersey will soon have a law that bans domestic abusers from owning firearms.

New Jersey's first expanded bear hunt in more than 30 years had quite the results, with 206 bears killed the first day alone and 100 the next day.

Scientists are telling New Jersey officials that cougars could save the state millions in relation to the deer population.

The upright walking black bear has become a social media darling and was recently caught on camera walking through a New Jersey neighborhood.

Democrats vow to stop new rules that would allow New Jersey gun owners to obtain a concealed carry permit if they prove 'serious threat.'

A Boy Scout leader who was pulled into a cave by a bear in northern New Jersey beat off the animal with a rock hammer while the three young Scouts with him called for help.

Wildlife officials say the annual hunt is an important part of their bear management plan and helps control the bruin population while reducing the potential for conflicts with people.

Northwest New Jersey has the highest concentration of black bears within their range and state officials are doing something about it.

Did you know bears love swimming pools? Check out this fun-loving black bear family cool off in a suburban pool.

Officials are warning Spotswood residents to be on the lookout for a coyote after a teenage fisherman said he fought off the animal.

Police have shot and killed a black bear that wandered into the backyard of a central New Jersey home where a yard sale was being staged.

Police are urging residents not to leave small animals or children outside unattended. They also warn residents whose pets are attacked not to touch any saliva left by the coyote. That could transit rabies if the animal has the virus.

Authorities were called to capture the cemetery bear. But they wouldn't tranquilize it because of how far the bear was up in a tree.

Police believe they have captured a coyote that attacked a Norwood resident and they are setting traps for others.

Officials believe the deer slipped under a security fence and landed in the tank at the Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority.

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

Residents of Trenton report that coyotes are roaming the streets of the state capital at night. So many have made Princeton their home that the town debated, but ultimately dismissed, the idea of hiring sharpshooters to cull the population.

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.

Authorities have taken a missing pet bobcat to a zoo after its owner found the animal not far from its southern New Jersey home.

Police say the deer struck the driver and went out the back window of his pickup truck.

Police in Princeton have killed a coyote that was described as being aggressive.

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

New Jersey wildlife officials are issuing new permits for the state's next black bear hunt.

Princeton's animal control advisory committee has decided against hiring sharpshooters to hunt coyotes.

Princeton officials are considering whether to use licensed hunters and trappers to reduce the growing population of coyotes and foxes in the Ivy league town.