Advocates against Florida's approved black bear hunt will ask a judge to halt the hunt, citing concerns over bear population ...

Texas Best Barbecue proudly displays its Lone Star heritage with a Texas flag painted right on the building. This little spot brings a taste of Texas to Florida’s Gulf Coast. The picnic tables out ...

A man shot and killed a bear on his neighbor's property in Grove Island, leaving the couple who owns the property heartbroken ...

Floridians really care about protecting bears,” she said. “And when you protect bear habitat, you protect habitat for so many ...

Protesters will rally against Florida's black bear hunting season while a legal battle unfolds over the wildlife commission's ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A Florida wildlife advocacy group has filed an injunction against the state’s wildlife commission in an attempt to halt a controversial black bear hunt scheduled for December.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission receives more than 6,000 calls about black bears each year. Florida's black bear population has grown from under 500 in the 1970s to about 4,000 ...

Arguing that Florida's decision to hold a bear hunt in December is not based on "sound" science and research, a conservation group this week asked a judge for an emergency temporary injunction to halt ...

Actor Mark Wahlberg recently purchased a lakefront estate in Stone Creek Ranch, an exclusive enclave west of Delray Beach known as "billionaires' row." Stone Creek Ranch is a private, gated community ...

Two weeks ago, influential Pensacola philanthropist and businessman Lewis Bear Jr., who died in 2023, was honored with the dedication of Lewis Bear Jr. Way on a southern portion of Ninth Avenue. The ...

In October 2015, Adam Sugalski stood at a check station in Lake City, Florida, and counted each dead Florida black bear brought in from the city’s hunt. The statewide hunt was called off after just ...

The 172 available lottery permits for Florida’s December black bear hunt have mostly been claimed and paid for, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. But it appears that many of those ...