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"When people intentionally attract bears with trash and food, it can lead to very dangerous situations," said parks superintendent Tracy Swartout.

An eight-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Park was indefinitely closed to traffic Monday due to repeated efforts by visitors to feed and even hold a young black bear at the Lane Pinnacle Overlook.

After multiple documented reports of visitors feeding and attempting to hold a young bear in recent weeks at the Lane Pinnacle Overlook…

With bear season on the horizon, take note of these bear safety tips from Pennsylvania Game Commission bear biologist and expert, Emily Carrollo.

As bears in the Telluride area wander onto porches, near chicken coops and turn over trash looking for every morsel and crumb of high-calorie food, locals have been ramping up

Local experts weigh in on the importance of being "bear aware" as hibernation closes in on bears in the Missoula area.

“One can of bear spray had been fully discharged but this bear was not to be deterred," reported the deceased man's uncle

After the fatal bear attack, the deceased couple's family revealed that the couple sent distressing messages before their death.

The couple was walking with their dog on national forestland near the U.S.-Canada border when the bear came out of thick brush and attacked

“There are these odd, strange, very, very sad events.”