Hunters killed 368 bears during the first part of New Jersey’s annual bear hunt for 2025, a 7.3% decrease compared to the same time last year, data from the state Department of Environmental ...

Three months after Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissioners approved it, the controversial Florida bear hunt has been reinstated and is scheduled for next month. Will it be be stopped?

WESH TWO NEWS STARTS NOW. FIRST AT FOUR. OPPONENTS ARE ASKING A JUDGE TO STOP A BEAR HUNT SCHEDULED TO START NEXT WEEK. BEAR WARRIORS UNITED IS SUING THE STATE AND ASKING THE COURT TO ISSUE AN ...

"I didn’t kill a bear that first day, but I did learn two important things that I have carried with me ever since." ...

I didn’t want to go after a bear with an empty gun.” Pennsylvania man details the hunts that led to him getting a massive ...

A black bear in Florida (Florida Fish and Wildlife, Tim Donovan/FWC) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – For the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida’s swamps ...

New Jersey’s 2025 bear hunting season has been extended after more than 450 bears have been killed so far. The hunt, which is broken up into two segments, has been extended another four days after the ...

Florida’s black bear hunt is scheduled to go forward next month despite its unpopularity and a lack of recent population studies to know if the mammal’s numbers are in decline. The Florida Fish and ...

FLORIDA, USA — Pointing to its constitutional power to manage wildlife, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is urging a judge to toss out a lawsuit that seeks to prevent a bear hunt ...

The lawsuit contends the FWC relied on outdated bear population numbers and lacked scientific justification for the December 2025 hunt that resulted in 52 bears being killed over a three-week period.

Hunters killed 368 bears during the first part of New Jersey’s annual bear hunt, a decrease compared to the same time last year, data from the state Department of Environmental Protection shows. The ...