If you ended up encountering a record-setting black bear in your home state, what would your reaction be? Maine sees its fair share of big bears, but one snared this year seems to have taken the cake.

Guide and outfitter Zack LaFreniere of Howland, Maine, had set a bait barrel in a remote part of Penobscot County in early September. He monitored the bait site with a cellular trail camera, and ...

A Pennsylvania hunter bagged the largest black bear in the state so far this year by killing a 717-pounder in Butler County's Moraine State Park. Nate Miller bagged the massive bear while hunting in ...

Louisiana's second iteration of its newly restarted black bear hunting season has ended with 16 bears killed, with the biggest weighing in at 565 pounds, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ...