Most people who won permits to participate in the first Florida black bear hunt since 2015 came away empty-handed. Jeff ...

The Florida hunt exposed deep emotional divisions among animal rights activists and hunters. In social media forums and in ...

Two arborists’ uncommon hobby takes them deep into the North Carolina woods to look for the state’s leafy giants.

The four-term governor and committed church-goer politicked with evangelical fervor. But Jim Hunt still struggled to sway the Religious Right.

We saw a phenomenal number of unusually large bears harvested across the Upper Peninsula,” said Cody Norton, the DNR’s bear, ...

Louisiana's second iteration of its newly restarted black bear hunting season has ended with 16 bears killed, with the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Fifty-two bears were killed during Florida's first black bear hunt in a decade, state wildlife officials said Tuesday. The bear hunt, which started Dec. 6 and ended on Sunday, had ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has released the results of the state’s first black bear hunt in ...

Ten years ago, a Florida bear hunt shocked the public when photos spread online of bloody carcasses of mother bears loaded in pickup trucks and splayed out on concrete slabs at hunter check-in ...

Florida’s first statewide black bear hunt in a decade is more than halfway over but state wildlife leaders have offered no information on its progress, not even a death count. “Are we overkilling like ...