A woman and her daughter playing tennis in Naples, Florida when a black bear wandered onto the courts.

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.

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

Florida's controversial bear hunt started Dec. 6 and will end Dec. 28. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

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.

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 ...

Barring a last-minute miracle, Florida’s black bears will be in the crosshairs of hunters come Saturday — a planned slaughter ...

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

Bear advocates have attempted to soften the blow from the hunt by collecting 52 of the available 172 permits given in the ...