TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.—A city in northern Michigan has a new Mother’s Day memory: A 350-pound bear was in a tree for hours, watched by dozens of people, before it fell asleep and dropped onto mattresses below. “It’s like the best block party ever,” Annette Andersen said. The drama in Traverse City began when wildlife experts […]
A hearing of the Assembly Public Safety Committee drew lots of debate. Lawmakers and members of the public weighed in on a number of fentanyl-related bills. California has passed a first-in-the-nation proposal. The goal is to cut back on gas emissions, but not everyone is on board. A seasoned deputy sheriff gives NTD a peak […]
A 74-year-old Connecticut woman suffered bites to her arms and legs Friday when she was attacked by a black bear while out walking her dog on a leash in a Hartford suburb, state environmental officials said. The woman was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening, officials said. The 12-year-old female bear was […]
ROME—Authorities in northern Italy captured a bear that fatally mauled a runner and became the focus of a battle over what to do with Italy’s growing Alpine brown bear population that was once nearly extinct but has rebounded thanks to a European Union-funded project. Jj4, a 17-year-old female, was captured overnight in the Brenta national […]
David Oppenheimer was relaxing outside his North Carolina home last week when his motion detector sounded an alarm. He turned around to check, but didn’t see anything. Moments later, however, a bear was staring him right in the face.
ST. LOUIS—St. Louis Zoo officials say they are working to find a way to keep an Andean bear named Ben inside his enclosure after he escaped Thursday for the second time this month. The bear was outside for less than an hour and was found only about 100 feet away from his habitat, zoo officials […]
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources came to the rescue of a bear-y unlucky bear after it became trapped in a ditch. The bear had hunkered down in a culvert alongside the road near Wannaska, Minnesota, according to a Facebook post from the department. But when the snow began to melt, the culvert started to […]
JUNEAU, Alaska—A skull found in 1997 in a remote part of Alaska’s Interior belongs to a New York man whose death was likely caused by a bear mauling, according to the Alaska State Troopers. Investigators used genetic genealogy to help identify the remains as those of Gary Frank Sotherden, according to a statement Thursday from […]
ROME—Italy was on Tuesday mourning the death in a road accident of a rare brown bear that made international headlines when it broke into a bakery and feasted on biscuits. The marsican bear, which had been named Juan Carrito, was killed after it was hit by an Opel Corsa car on a mountain road near […]
