Residents in Texas are currently on bear watch after officials received multiple reports of black bear activity in neighborhoods South of Alpine. The Texas Parks and Wildlife-Trans-Pecos Wildlife ...

A black bear is hunting chickens and searching for food in neighborhoods around the Big Bend National Park. Officials with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are urging residents living south of ...

Video footage captured by Sarah Loving in West Simsbury shows the black bear enjoying her backyard by climbing up a slide and riding down it.

"Human-bear interactions are going to start becoming more common as bears continue to recolonize," Matthew Hewitt, a wildlife research assistant at the institute, told Texas Co-op Power.