Bear encounters near residential areas are rising across the United States, and this trend is no longer limited to remote mountain towns or forest edges. Suburbs, rural communities, and even ...

Managers of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness say they will extend stricter food storage requirements for visitors, noting the rules have reduced encounters with black bears over the last two ...

In an unusual and unsettling development, park officials in the Tatra Mountains of southern Poland have issued a formal safety warning for hikers after a massive brown bear was spotted wandering along ...