Last fall, black bears roamed in Dolores in noticeable numbers, rummaging through trash cans, walking along Central Avenue ...

If you're driving or camping in bear country, odds are good you'll get close to a bear. Just because you're inside a car ...

As clashes between people and black bears continue to escalate, Colorado is calling on communities to help fix the problem.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering $1 million in grants to help reduce human-bear conflicts as part of the Human-Bear Conflict Reduction Community Grant Program.

Most people imagine a bear encounter as loud and chaotic, yet real encounters unfold with startling speed. A bear reads ...

Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials euthanized an adult male black bear Sunday after it had become food-conditioned and habituated to humans. Multiple sightings of the bear getting into ...

Officials recommend that humans never approach or feed wild black bears, which number over 1,500 in the Gatlinburg area Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Across the Arctic, one bear stands apart from all the others, not just in size but in how it looks at us. While most large carnivores treat people as a threat to avoid, this predator is one of the few ...