I have killed five bears above the black-bear class with a bow in the last six years and tackled two others that proved too much to handle that way and had to be stopped with a rifle. From those seven ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My first bullet knocked the bear flat, but he scrambled to his feet quickly and came along the beach for us. A jinx is a nasty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Louisiana black bear photographed at Dewey Wills Wildlife Management Area in Central Louisiana. (LDWF photo) Louisiana officials ...

Arguing that Florida's decision to hold a bear hunt in December is not based on "sound" science and research, a conservation group this week asked a judge for an emergency temporary injunction to halt ...

Florida's controversial bear hunt is scheduled to take place from Dec. 6 to Dec. 28. A nonprofit organization has filed a lawsuit seeking to halt the hunt, with a hearing scheduled for Nov. 24. The ...

The California Fish and Game Commission’s decision to expand black bear hunting raises key questions about how the new rules ...

Florida fish and wildlife officials said this week that no bears were taken illegally as part of the state’s first bear hunt in a decade and no hunters were cited, calling it a success “by all ...

Oklahoma lawmakers are looking to extend the state’s bear hunting season to start it two weeks earlier. The author of House Bill 4128, Representative Scott Fetgatter from Okmulgee, says he drew up the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Just a small fraction of people who applied to participate in Florida's bear hunt will be issued a permit. Wildlife officials said 163,459 applications were submitted, and only 172 will ...

Three months after Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissioners approved it, the controversial Florida bear hunt has been reinstated and is scheduled for next month. Will it be be stopped?