But reports of human-bear interactions have been on the rise across the country for decades. About 65,000 black bears are estimated to roam California — almost double from a decade ago.

With the cooling temperatures and the approach of fall, the City of Maple Ridge and local environmental groups are reminding ...

LOS ANGELES – A Sierra Madre resident returned home to a shocking surprise after discovering a bear had broken in while searching for food. The bruin left behind a trail of destruction inside ...

DOWNIEVILLE – An autopsy has found that a California woman who was found dead in her Sierra County home back in 2023 was ...

A black bear was recently “evicted” from an abandoned home in Sierra Madre, a Southern California city facing an uptick in black bear reports. In early August, a neighboring resident filed a ...

Videographer Kennedy Wilkins told newswire service Storyful that he was on a trip when he spotted the scruffy bear walking ...

A California teen had an up close and personal moment with a black bear with video to prove it. Kimberly Mendoza, 17, was walking in the woods near Lake George in Mammoth, with an unnamed friend ...

has introduced a resolution in the California legislature to declare 2024 the “Year of the California Grizzly Bear” to mark the centennial of the extirpation of California’s official state animal. The ...

The 38,417-acre Line Fire in San Bernardino County is 25% contained Saturday as it was less active overnight because of air ...

(He rescinded the policy after a dramatic rise in bear-human conflicts.) The California Department of Fish and Wildlife conducts a tightly regulated annual bear hunt with a cap on the total killed ...

By Soumya Karlamangla Improved weather conditions over the weekend allowed California firefighters to make progress on some of the state’s toughest blazes. But the battles are far from over ...