The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced on Tuesday that its annual free-to-play scavenger hunt, ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is considering Florida's first black bear hunt in 10 years as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than half the bears killed during December's Florida bear hunt were from the state's Panhandle, but the biggest animal killed ...

Joel Cleveland beat the odds – 953 to 1, to be precise – to secure a bear hunting permit in Florida starting at the crack of dawn on Dec. 6. He won't be using it, however. Florida’s first bear hunting ...

Florida's first black bear hunt in ten years is scheduled to begin on December 6, pending a court challenge. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission issued 187 permits for the hunt, ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Leon County circuit judge on Monday rejected a request for a temporary injunction to halt Florida’s first black bear hunt in a decade. Circuit Judge Angela Dempsey ruled against ...

For the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida’s swamps and flatwoods to legally hunt the Florida black bear, over the vocal opposition of ...

As the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission continues to analyze the state's first permitted bear hunt in a decade, the agency has started to release more data. A fact sheet posted Friday ...