Recent encounters between aggressive bears and humans in Great Smoky Mountains National Park prompted trail closures and safety warnings.

A Cascade Township neighbor captured clear footage of a bear on her back porch after it returned to her home in back-to-back nights this weekend. Officials warn bears are active and hungry.

Video captured on Mount Wilson in the Angeles National Forest showed a black bear charging at a hiker. The video, which was posted on Instagram Monday by Eric Chiu, shows a hiker walking toward a black bear (that appears brown) and making noise with bells to try to get the bear to go away.

Video captured the shocking moment a bear charged at a hiker while on a trail on Mount Wilson in the Angeles National Forest. The video shows the bear and hiker face-to-face from a bit of a distance,

A bear was recently spotted in a Durham neighborhood. A resident's camera caught it near Sandy Creek Park.