Bear seen taking a stroll in Otsego
The DNR says fewer than 10% of the state's black bears have that brown color.
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The DNR says fewer than 10% of the state's black bears have that brown color.
A concerning video shows a group of people in North Carolina pulling two small bear cubs from a tree in Asheville.
When bears tuck into their dens for the winter, Dr. Andy Tri gets to work, taking his tool that communicates with the collared trackers on the bears the state is monitoring to locate them in their dens.
The caper was captured on the home's Ring camera.
Fat Bear Week will launch this week at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
The black bear was filmed just inches away from a family as it interrupted a birthday lunch to devour the tacos and enchiladas
Video of the "bear" interacting with people at a zoo in the city of Hangzhou went viral, with many casting doubt on the animal's authenticity.
Black bears are making their presence known this summer. One of the latest sightings comes from Lino Lakes, where the family pet sounded the alarm.
The video WCCO viewers have been sending is startling. Week after week there is new evidence that more bears are coming closer to the metro.
Wayne and Sandy Rasmussen sent WCCO a new video from Breezy Point, which shows a mama bear and her two cubs on the hunt for some food. But that wasn't the end of their encounters.
Wayne and Sandy Rasmussen sent WCCO a new video from Breezy Point, which shows a mama bear and her two cubs on the hunt for some food.
Between 12,000 and 16,000 black bears live in Minnesota, the Minnesota DNR says. For the past 20 years, the population has been growing and expanding further south and west. That means a lot of close encounters for Minnesotans.
A black bear stopped by the backyard of a homeowner west of the metro.
Police say he climbed up in the tree early Tuesday morning, slept all day and came down late in the night.
Video shows the bear then start to make its way up toward the highway -- that's when people nearby then actually tried to get its attention.
Another weekend, another bear sighting in the metro area. This time it was in Rogers. Multiple viewers last night reported seeing the bear near the Target off Highway 101.
Officials had to step in to help a possibly orphaned bear cub at a park reserve in the north metro this week.
With spring busting out all over, it goes without saying that the state's bear population is getting out to enjoy winter's end along with the rest of us.
An elementary school principal got a big scare from a bear in the dumpster.
Neighbors in Northfield are keeping an eye out after a black bear was spotted in a neighborhood overnight Friday. It's the latest of several bear sightings in Minnesota including some close to the Twin Cities.
Here's a sure sign of spring -- bears are out of hibernation and wandering into unexpected places. Tahleel Mohieldin reports on a sighting in southern Wisconsin.
Last winter, WCCO brought you into a bear's den in Minnesota's north woods. Erin Hassanzadeh and photographer Joe Berglove tagged along with Department of Natural Resources' black bear researchers.
Instead of serving your friend – or perhaps a former one – up as bait, the National Park Service says there are several other ways to avoid a bear attack.
Bears do occasionally hibernate above ground, the DNR reported. It's not unusual. However, in this case, melting snow ended up flooding the bear out of the culvert.
In the meantime, organizers of the official Fat Bear Week poll in Alaska said that their contest became the target of rampant ballot stuffing.
