A morning tennis match turned wild at Naples Lakes Country Club when an unexpected visitor showed up. Michelle Kraft was ...

For the first time in a decade, hunters are fanning out across Florida to legally hunt the Florida black bear.

Florida is four days into its 2025 Black Bear Hunt, but we still don’t know how many bears have been harvested, or even if any hunters have bagged a single bear yet.

From Dec. 6 through Dec. 28, hunters who received a permit will be able to harvest black bears on private property, with ...

Barring last-minute lawsuits, the first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade starts this weekend. Here's what to know.

Florida's controversial bear hunt started Dec. 6 and will end Dec. 28. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is overseeing the hunt, and the state granted 172 lottery style permits for ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In spite of opposition from wildlife advocates, the first black bear hunt in Florida since 2015, will ...

A group of Florida bear advocates is offering to pay tag-holding hunters $2,000 a piece to sit out on this year's hunt.

The state’s first sanctioned hunt of black bears in a decade kicks off amid sharply divided public opinion and efforts by ...

The Florida black bear hunting season has begun, with 172 permits issued for this year's hunt, the state's first since 2015.

Florida has launched its first state-sanctioned black bear hunt since 2015. State wildlife officials claim that the hunt will ...

One of the 172 hunters selected in a state lottery for the right to hunt a Florida black bear said he plans to use the permit ...