Lorna Weafer, 36, was killed by a black bear in an unprovoked Alberta fatal black bear attack while at work at a Canadian oil ...

A record 13 people were killed by bears in Japan last year, and there has been a jump in sightings as the animals emerge hungry from hibernation.

A brown bear terrorised a Japanese village killing five people in what experts described as some of the most extraordinary examples of animal behaviour.

Fatal maulings in the last three months have jumped fivefold compared to last year, according to government data.

Bear believed to have unlatched and opened a locked window, and was seen turning on and drinking from a tap Police and hunters in Fukushima, Japan were searching for an “extremely intelligent” bear ...

A teenage boy was injured after a black bear lunged at a group of people hiking on a trail in Washington state earlier this week. Officials said three hikers were about 2.7 miles up the trail when a ...

Four people were injured, including a woman in her 80s, after a bear rampaged through an office complex and residential area in Fukushima, Japan on Tuesday, June 2 Two schools in the area closed as a ...

OSAKA -- As bear attacks on people continue across Japan, particularly in the northeast, Osaka Prefecture in western Japan is ...

One Japanese city is taking no chances after a series of bear sightings this week, closing nearly 100 schools as officials scour the town, and as attacks take place elsewhere in the country.