Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black bear in the woods The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is investigating two recent attacks by black bears. (Photo courtesy ...

Black bear sightings are still a problem in Sanford’s Bookertown neighborhood, according to the people living there. They sent WFTV videos of three bears walking down a yard between two houses, a bear ...

After two people were believed to have been killed by bears within a month in Arkansas, two others narrowly survived their own attack, officials say. Two backpackers camping at Salt Fork Creek ...

BIG SKY, Mont. — Three archery hunters recently encountered grizzly bears in the Taylor Fork south of Big Sky. None of the hunters were injured. The first encounter was with two hunters on Sep. 29 in ...

Following the recent attacks across Japan, the police in Tochigi Prefecture, approximately 100 km north of Tokyo, and the local hunters' club conducted a bear drill on Monday. The exercise was ...

The United States has issued a warning to travelers regarding a slew of recent bear attacks in Northern Japan. On November 12, the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Japan published a “Wildlife Alert” ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry is responding to a surge of bear attacks by sending its military to areas where such incidents are occurring regularly. Troops were deployed to the northern prefecture of ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in the October print issue of the Arkansas Times, which went to press before the state’s second recent bear attack occurred. The version below has been ...