Louisiana will expand its black bear hunting season in 2025, increasing the number of permits and opening two new hunting areas. The decision comes after a successful inaugural hunt in 2024 ...

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Some Connecticut lawmakers want bear hunting to be legal. The state’s Environmental Committee discussed a proposal on Wednesday at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.

Although it’s been nearly a decade since Florida last allowed hunting of black bears, hundreds who took part this week in a meeting about another possible hunt proved it remains a divisive issue.

Now, black bears could be the next trophy for hunters as the FWC considers a statewide bear hunt. At a meeting last year, the public weighed in on the pros and the cons of a black bear hunt.

Louisiana is expanding black bear hunting just one year after its first season in decades, more than doubling the number of hunters allowed to participate and more than tripling the number of ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is considering a black bear hunt, and is asking for public input. Florida's last black bear hunt took place in 2015 and ended after just 48 hours.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida wildlife officials will hold a series of online meetings in March and April about the possibility of a return to bear hunting in the state. Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

(For illustrative purposes only.) Shutterstock German police said they are hunting a man who on Sunday doused a woman tram passenger with flammable liquid and set fire to her, causing critical wounds.

Hounding of bears by hunters during bear hunting season was outlawed by the Legislature in 2012 and shouldn’t come back even if hunters don’t intend to kill the bears. As in 2012, it remains ...

New Jerseyans were not pleased when black bear hunting season opened in October and December. The annual proceeding allows the killing of up to 11,000 bears, but conservationists say proponents ...

Changes could soon be coming to bear hunting in Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is making recommendations for changes to the state’s bear permit area boundaries ...