A conservation group has sued to stop Florida's first bear hunt in a decade, which is scheduled to begin in December. The lawsuit claims the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission used ...

A Leon County circuit judge on Monday rejected a group’s request for a temporary injunction to halt the state’s first black ...

Protestors for Florida's reinstated bear hunt are gathering in Tallahassee ahead of a lawsuit to temporarily halt it. Here's ...

Forget polar bears. Thegiant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) was the true heavyweight of North America’s ancient wilderness ...

Florida's first black bear hunt in a decade is set to kick off next month, and opponent of the event rallied outside the state capitol in Tallahassee on Monday amid an effort to prevent bears from ...

Guide and outfitter Zack LaFreniere of Howland, Maine, had set a bait barrel in a remote part of Penobscot County in early September. He monitored the bait site with a cellular trail camera, and ...

For the first time in a decade, a black bear hunt is coming to Florida. But some residents are trying to stop it. More than ...