New Mexico’s official state animal is the American black bear, but the choice reflected more than the presence of a large ...

The 5- to 7-year-old black bear known as Yellow 2291 was recently spotted by Topanga residents with three cubs. The quartet would be the first black bear family to reside in the Santa Monica Mountains ...

The pioneering days of bear research in the 1950s were not standardized at all. One capture team using ether-soaked cotton to ...

Wildlife officials have captured a black bear in the Santa Monica Mountains. While there have been bear sightings in the area before, the April 23 capture was the first time officials captured and ...

A California black bear wandered through Adelanto and Victorville before wildlife officials guided it back to the San Gabriel ...

This story was updated to correct a misspelling/typo. A black bear with only two legs was sighted in the mountains of West Virginia. Kirk Price, an outdoorsman based in West Virginia, told USA TODAY ...

After roaming the streets of Adelanto and Victorville, a black bear has been returned to the San Gabriel Mountains.

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — After multiple reports in the last week of visitors feeding black bears in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the National Park Service is once again imploring the public ...

PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, Calif. (KERO) — Bears are not an uncommon sight for those living in the mountains, but what is it like to actually live amongst the bears? As temperatures climb, some ‘residents’ ...