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OLEAN — A black bear was shot and killed by Olean police in the city shortly after midnight Aug. 13. Police Chief Ron Richardson reported Thursday two...

Hunters in Cattaraugus County took 47 black bears in 2020, five fewer than the year before, according to a state Department of Environmental Conservat...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The black bear population across Pennsylvania is estimated at 16,268 by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. That’s a big drop from th...

LAKE PLACID (AP) — A black bear has been euthanized after it repeatedly raided backpackers’ campsites in the Adirondack High Peaks seeking food, accor...

From Revolutionary War bones in the basement to the horrors of the Holocaust, from standing up against the Vietnam War to a new home for Pooh Bear, he...

The woodchuck Punxsutawney Phil is disturbed from his winter sleep every Feb. 2 for a traditional spectacle. This winter, wildlife biologists with the...

In mid-October, the wildlife one most often sees along the Allegheny River Valley Trail are industrious squirrels and chipmunks as they seek and gathe...

BRADFORD, Pa. — A black bear went to school last week — breaking into Floyd C. Fretz Middle School and walking around Thursday night. The unexpected v...

Warmer weather means a particular animal can bear-ly be contained to the wilderness. That’s right: black bears have recently been reported in a number...

JOHNSTON, R.I. — The proverbial, unprintable question about bears finally has an answer: not just in the woods. Sometimes, also, in the suburbs of Rho...

At a time of year that black bears will soon be on the move, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is urging people to be carefu...

I have a friend who made a good shot on a buck in archery season a few years ago. He was hunting in the woods not far from his home and he was pretty ...

I’ve heard our black bears described as scary, cute, curious, nasty, mischievous, impressive, powerful, aggressive, timid and more. I think I’ve met m...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The state with most black bears on the East Coast might change the way it manages its growing population of the animals, and hu...

Bill Steckman never seems to run out of creative ideas. When the 70-foot, 70-year-old pine tree in Steckman’s yard on Broad Street in Salamanca starte...

Lucia Scotty of Hamilton Avenue was happy to get a trail camera this past Christmas because she enjoys seeing the wildlife that crosses her backyard, ...

Black bears have been keeping the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wildlife staff busy, with numerous human-bear conflicts alre...

At a time of year that black bears are on the move, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is urging people to be careful with fo...