BLOOMFIELD, CONN. — Lynette Grande planned to take a swim in her pool Saturday afternoon, until she saw that a large black bear had beaten her to it.

NEW YORK — A close encounter with a black bear was caught on camera.

GENESSEE, COLO. — Two Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies caught a wild encounter on camera after a bear broke into a car in Genessee.

FOLSOM CITY, CALIF. — Workers at the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary in California say they’re used to people “warning” them about a stray cat in an enclosure with one of the black bears, Sequoia.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Wildlife officials say the bear who attacked a marathon runner in the Valles Caldera over the weekend is dead and will be tested for rabies.

AVON, COLO. — They hooped and hollered and banged on the walls, grown men in head-to-toe firefighting gear — including helmets — dispatched in the middle of the night to a second-floor apartment in a small Colorado town to ward off a pesky, unwanted intruder.

STEVENSVILLE, MICH. — What’s a bear to do after a long winter’s slumber?

NEW CARLISLE – DNR says a black bear that can’t seem to make up its mind on a new home, may have wandered back to Indiana. The report came early in the week that the bear, who has gone back and forth between Indiana and Michigan all summer, might have damaged a bird feeder and …read more.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources biologists have confirmed the presence of a wild black bear in northern Indiana today. The bear reportedly walked in from Michigan. The DNR received reliable reports earlier in the week of the wandering bear near South Bend and was able to make confirmation after wildlife biologist Budd Veverka examined the …read more.