black bear

The Louisiana black bear was so scrawny when it was captured rooting through garbage about about a year ago, officials sent it to a rescue center to get healthy.

A Georgia black bear is shown sitting in a tree in the middle part of the state.

Police who shot the bear Saturday night near East Side houses said the safety hazard it posed left them no choice.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection 2011 Bear Hunt begins Monday with hunters in possession of a permit allowed to kill one black bear each.

Wildlife officials euthanized a black bear that recently went into a north Florida home and helped itself to food and birthday cake.

Researchers fear a hunter may have killed a black bear named Hope who became famous when her birth in northeastern Minnesota was broadcast live to a worldwide audience over the Internet.

The death of a B.C. First Nations elder shows all the signs of a deadly bear attack, says a Calgary-based black bear expert.

Crews scaled a tree in Tualatin Wednesday to get down a tranquilized black bear that had been chased from a nearby elementary school.

Wildlife officials shot a black bear with a tranquilizer gun as it roamed through the parking lot of a condominium complex near downtown Fort Myers.

Bear trapped after wandering in Hudson River city Comments Black bear in City of Poughkeepsie: A black bear that climbed a pine tree in the City of Poughkeepsie was shot with a tranquilizer dart and removed.