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.