Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than half the bears killed during December's Florida bear hunt were from the state's Panhandle, but the biggest animal killed ...

Joel Cleveland beat the odds – 953 to 1, to be precise – to secure a bear hunting permit in Florida starting at the crack of dawn on Dec. 6. He won't be using it, however. Florida’s first bear hunting ...

For the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida’s swamps and flatwoods to legally hunt the Florida black bear, over the vocal opposition of ...

Florida's first black bear hunt in ten years is scheduled to begin on December 6, pending a court challenge. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission issued 187 permits for the hunt, ...

Florida has reopened black bear hunting for the first time in ten years, and you are watching a clash between two very different visions of conservation. Supporters see a tightly controlled season as ...

Florida has reopened black bear hunting, and you are stepping into a fight that has only hardened since the last season a decade ago. Supporters frame the move as overdue wildlife management, while ...

Florida is less than a week 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. When News 6 asked the ...